[scribus] Running Scribus 1.3.3.13 on Windows XP

[John Beardmore]

Lori Jiacinto wrote:

> To crash Scribus when bringing in a JPEG file:  press "I" and select an 
> area; right-click in the red dotted square outline (there is no big X in 
> the middle) and select "Get image..."; choose an existing file from the 
> "Open" window (where the image previews look great, BTW); click "Open"; 
> see the popup "Scribus crashes due to the following exception: 
> EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION".
> 
> In short: how do I see what I'm working on (other than the print preview 
> or exporting it to pdf constantly), and how do I import an image file 
> without Scribus crashing?

As other windows users don't have either of these problems, I think you 
may have to look at your hardware or hardware configuration.

Have you tried running a RAM diagnostic recently ?


Cheers, J/.
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