Kevin Walzer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm using Scribus 1.1 via Fink (OS X 10.2.8)and am looking forward to > putting it through the paces in a production environment. So far the > results are promising (my earlier experiences, documented in my blog, were > not as good and reflected my own steep learning curve with X11). I'm still > curious, though, about the prospects for a fully-native OS X port. I know > that Benjamin Reed of KDE/Fink did a "proof-of-concept" port earlier this > summer, but it wasn't particularly functional, and I don't think he plans > to update it. Does the Scribus team have anything official in the works? > It would be nice to be able to access all OS X fonts and run the program > without the overhead of X11. Not a big deal, but just thought I'd ask.
As Scribus continues to be developed, it seems to do more X11-specific stuff, and I'm not code-fu enough to work around it. If anyone wants to give it a shot, they're welcome to, but I don't really understand how scribus does all of it's font-manipulation stuff (and how it would work in a pure-qt implementation), which is what caused most of the issues in a Qt/Mac port. -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick -- http://ranger.befunk.com/ gpg: 6401 D02A A35F 55E9 D7DD 71C5 52EF A366 D3F6 65FE We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like them. If we didn't, we would have made something else be the default. So keep your cotton-pickin' hands off our defaults. Don't touch. Consider them mandatory. "Mandatory defaults" has a nice ring to it. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 253 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20031027/aa6b6b85/attachment.pgp
