[scribus] Scribus on Mac OS X...?

[Craig Bradney]

On 30/04/2011, at 16:58, Jan Schrewe <jschrewe at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On 30 April 2011 06:12, Mike Sleger <chappa-ai at q.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello, I've been using Scribus for over a year now on a Windows XP system
>> and currently in the transition to a new MacBook Pro (i7 Intel quad-core).
>> I'm not too impressed with Apple's attempt at DTP through Pages and don't
>> have the money for Quark or InDesign.  I'd like to keep using Scribus (I
>> like its features and price).  I've read mixed reviews about its ability to
>> install and run on OS X and I haven't seen much information about it at the
>> Scribus site.  So, some questions for anybody who's been using the OS X
>> version of Scribus on a MacBook:
>> 
>> How complicated is the installation?
>> 
> 
> Depends. If you install the .dmg from scribus: Download, unpack, copy to
> Apllications, run.
> 
> I tried installing scribus with fink and it didn't work. That is fink didn't
> work and I didn't like it.
> 
> I ended up installing scribus usimf homebrew (
> http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). After you have installed homeprew you
> need manually download the installation file for scribus (
> http://www.schafproductions.com/assets/scribus.rb) und copy it
> to /usr/local/Library/Formula/. After that it you can install scribus by
> running brew install scribus. That is, if I haven't forgotten something. If
> something goes wrong just write me.
> 
> 
>> What is Aqua?
>> 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)
> 
> 
>> How "stable" is the current release?
>> 
> 
> I run scribus-1.4rc2 and never had any Problems.
> 
> 
>> How fast does it run?  (It absolutely crawls on my Windows system with 4 GB
>> RAM)
>> 
> 
> No Problems on a Mac Book Air 13'' with 4Gb RAM.
> 
> 
>> Can files created in the Windows version be opened in the OS X version?
>> What are the equivalent versions between the two platforms?
>> 
> 
> That should work. At least Linux Files work on Mac. 1.4 on Mac is 1.4 on
> Windows.
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The OSX version should work just as well as the Linux or Windows version for almost all points apart from one bug we need to fix before we release 1.4.0 for canvas sizing with cocoa widgets.

Craig