[scribus] downloading stable version of Scribus for Mac

[Gregory Pittman]

On 12/18/2010 07:31 PM, Paul Tansom wrote:
> ** Alison Saylor<alison.saylor at gmail.com>  [2010-12-18 23:58]:
>> On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Paul Tansom<paul at aptanet.com>  wrote:
>>> ** Alison Saylor<alison.saylor at gmail.com>  [2010-12-18 23:30]:
>>>> Would love a response to my last email or this one.  Can not find a
>>>> link to download any version of Scribus for Mac other than 1.3.9
>>>> Would like to keep using Scribus and not have to switch over to
>>>> another DTP program.  Can not use 1.3.9, has made my system crash all
>>>> of the three times I tried to open it after downloading it but I have
>>>> been successfully using prior versions of Scribus with this same
>>>> machine.  Thank you!
>>> ** end quote [Alison Saylor]
>>>
>>> Try on Sourceforge here:
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/OldFiles/
>>>
>>> I've not tried Scribus on the Mac yet, but am in the process of downloading
>>> 1.3.8 to see how it goes on my Tiger install.
>>>
>> Thank you thank you thank you!
> ** end quote [Alison Saylor]
>
> Don't thank me yet, I've just finished downloading, installed and found it
> doesn't work. After a bit of experimentation with Google search terms I've
> found that the .dmg files don't work with 10.4.x :( [1] Just reading up on a
> possible fix, but will probably have to leave trying it out until later. [2]
>
> [1] http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=9407
> [2] http://www.scribus.net/node/158/submission/442
>
If you can manage to upgrade your OS X to 10.5 or better, that is the 
best solution.

Greg