Hi Tom, I experenced the same problem here! Could you please read this Mail and try whether your print preview works as expected in your latest CVS.
Thanks, Sebastian It`s getting worse!!! If tried to load my scribus doc on my "backup & stable system" to see whether some apt updates crashed something here. In older scribus versions than the latest CVS I have here the document can not be loaded (Crash/Sig11): e.g.build id: 19th june seppel at seppelsrechner:~> scribus Calling Emergency Save Saving: /daten/docs/jmc/pampapaper/sla/pampa2.sla.emergency QWidget (ps): deleted while being painted QPaintDevice: Cannot destroy paint device that is being painted seppel at seppelsrechner:~> Crosscheck: when I try to load an older Scribus doc with the latest Scribus the print preview works fine. The latest CVS seems to build corrupt .sla files. This sound like a BIG problem for me - sorry! Attached the problem file - use any .jpg in the picture frame to test it. I hope you find a solution soon. Thanks for all the support again! Sebastian Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 22:06 schrieben Sie: > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 21:53, Sebastian R?der wrote: > > Am Montag, 12. Juli 2004 21:20 schrieben Sie: > > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 21:02, Craig Bradney wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 20:51, Sebastian R?der wrote: > > > > > Hi list, > > > > > > > > > > my new project is not shown correctly in the print preview. I have > > > > > put a b/w photo into the background but the print preview only show > > > > > a light blue background instead. I have transparency for pdf1.4 > > > > > enabled (disabled=same problem )but the picture is without > > > > > transparency, just normal jpg. I`ve changed the size of the photo > > > > > since it had position x: -3 and y:-3 and is bigger than the page. > > > > > Same problem. Then I?ve enabled the crop contents to margens > > > > > function, no effort. The page size is landscape 168x146mm (custom). > > > > > The page exports correctly to pdf. The semi-transparency in my text > > > > > background is not shown correct in the preview, too. In the scribus > > > > > main window everything is OK. > > > > > > > > Print preview depends on your Ghostscript version to create the > > > > preview. What version do you have? We use AFPL 8.14. > > > > > > Adding to this.. we rely on the png16m, png16alpha and bitcmyk devices > > > and these can be seen in a gs --help. Your GS needs to have those for > > > full print preview functionality. > > > > png16alpha is missing if you do not mean pngalpha. But I had the print > > preview already up and running (well) with my SuSE 9.1 distro and the > > SuSE ghostscript rpms 7.0.7. Will test this tomorow with my other > > standard SuSE installation without updated software - I use apt4rpm here > > and sometimes thing get broken. Are you sure that it works OK in latest > > Scribus CVS (build id 2004-07-03)? > > sorry.. yes.. pngalpha. It worked the last time I used it although there > might be an issue with transparencies, although if its working you > should see a chessboard like pattern as a background when transparency > is turned on instead of white. 7.07 still may not provide you a good > preview even with those devices. > > > I will try the AFPL ghostscript in the future, thanks for the info. Is > > this already mentioned in the docs section on the scribus hp? Would be a > > good idea! > > No because the print preview didnt support all the current features when > those docs were written. New ones are due for 1.2 and the Ghostscript > section has already been written. > > Craig
