I'd like to appeal to you clever guys, in particular the kde wizards, to
help me with the Scribus package. I have spent quite some time on this
package, but it is now clear it is too big a fish for my modest
knowledge of c++, libtool, qt, darwin bundles and all that.
Scribus is a page layout program that has nicely evolved and seems to
come close to serious usability now. Quite a few people have shown
interest in the fink package. Unfortunately, it is not really usable on
MacOSX, so far. I think it would be interesting and worth while to make
it work.
The main problem are plugins. Scribus uses plugins for saving the
document in ps or pdf format. It expects these plugins as *.so files,
and I have not yet succeeded in convincing the scribus build process to
compile such things. By default (scribus-0.8 in unstable does this), it
produces libpdf.a and libpdf.la instead of libpdf.so. I have a version
of scribus-0.9.3 in experimental/martinc that compiles dylibs instead,
but apparently this is not what is needed. I suspect what is needed are
bundles, but I don't know how to produce them.
So right now any attempt to save a page creates a segfault and a message
"Plugin not found".
Scribus uses the qt3 libraries and it looks like it is being developed
using kdevelop, so there are similarities with some kde packages. Maybe
some of the tricks from porting kde might help here, too?
Another problem is font handling. It doesn't lead to segfaults, but the
fonts don't look right on the page.
Any help would be appreciated.
--
Martin
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