[scribus] Scribus for Mac 1.5.4

[JLuc]

Le 21/01/2019 à 19:49, Michelle Harris a écrit :
> Thank you for your suggestions.
> 
> « It's a way to install the most up to date (and subject to being unstable)
> version of Scribus. The trade off is that you need to backup any of your
> current .sla docs before you open them in this version: 1.5.1svn because
> it's not backward compatible. »
> 
> My problem with using 1.5.1 is that (I'm fairly certain) 1.5.4 is the first
> version that is mac 64 bit compatible. I can't do 1.5.1 on a mojave osx
> mbp. I've seen the older (2015) posts on the .net/forum re: greyed-out
> embed option, but I've not seen a viable solution.
> The blurred pages are sent to me as pdfs that I (as I've always) bring to
> the document by double clicking on an image frame, and I'm not able to
> embed them like I did when I was running 1.4.3.

I think "1.5.1" was the current most uptodate version when that post was writen
a couple of years ago.
So when reading it *today* you should translate it to "1.5.4" or better : "1.5.5"

Interesting part might be the link
https://github.com/scribusproject/homebrew-scribus

JLuc

> Thanks in advance. I'm a newbie to this version, but I used 1.4.3 without
> incident for several years now. I do appreciate people bearing with my
> steep learning curve.
> 
> On Sun, Jan 20, 2019 at 11:53 PM JLuc <jluc at no-log.org> wrote:
> 
>> Le 21/01/2019 à 03:29, Michelle Harris a écrit :
>>> I'm an editor trying to resolve the problem of pdf pages being illegible
>>> since I upgraded to Scribus 1.5.4 which I needed to do because my mojave
>>> osx on the mbp (64 bit) rendered my 1.4.3 (32 bit) obsolete. On that old
>>> vers., embed (experimental) was a clickable option; on 1.5.4 that option
>> is
>>> greyed out (on my machine).
>>
>> Reading http://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=1710.0
>> the conclusion reads
>> «  This is because the dev that packages OSX builds most likely didn't
>> build it with the PoDoFo library. »
>>
>> I'm not sure this is it, but it looks like it.
>> and it advises to check out:
>> https://github.com/scribusproject/homebrew-scribus
>>
>> « It's a way to install the most up to date (and subject to being
>> unstable) version of Scribus. The trade off is that
>> you need to backup any of your current .sla docs before you open them in
>> this version: 1.5.1svn because it's not
>> backward compatible. »
>>
>> JLuc
>>
>>> To your note regarding:
>>>
>>> "In the About Scribus window, at the bottom, there is a Build ID that
>> starts
>>> with a set of letters. (Like C-*-*-T something.)" I can tell you that the
>>> spaces are blank. I can, with permission, send a screenshot of the
>> "about"
>>> panel, but here is what it says:
>>>
>>> Scribus version 1.5.4
>>> 28 April 2018 - SVN Revision: 22484
>>> Build ID:C--T -F-C1.14.12-Mac/-64bit
>>> Using Ghostscript version 9.26
>>>
>>> Another member sends me calendar pages that until this upgrade, looked
>> ok,
>>> now his pages are blurred and "unsearchable."
>>> Any assistance would be appreciated. I'm happy to provide further
>>> information, whatever I can.
>>>
>>>
>>> MH
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