-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I found that Scribus crashed almost constantly when I had a lot of fonts on my system: it just choked on them during the startup phase. The number of fonts I had slowed down other applications and even overwhelmed Font Book. After removing a large number of fonts that I never used, Scribus now starts up fine (and my system is snappier overall). I'm on 10.4.2.
Cheers, Kevin Walzer, PhD WordTech Software--Open Source Applications and Packages for OS X http://www.wordtech-software.com http://www.kevin-walzer.com http://www.smallbizmac.com. mailto:sw at wordtech-software.com Andreas Vox wrote: | Martin wrote: | |> Hello, |> |> Both aqua version I have downloaded today from |> http://aqua.scribus.net/ crash on startup with spinning beach ball, a |> few seconds into "Searching for fonts...", on a G4 system running |> 10.3.9. | | | Could you send the crash report? Start the debug version, when the crash | reports shows up, choose "Send crash report", copy the report into the | clipboard, cancel crash reporter and send the clipboard contents to the | list? | |> |> Before starting Scribus for first time, I downloaded the frameworks |> from the same sources and copied the individual packages into the |> Frameworks directory in my User library. After first crash, I |> replaced Freetype 2.1.10 with 2.1.9 yet same result/problem. | | | So it wasn't any bug which got fixed in 2.1.10.... | |> After |> more unsuccessful tries to start the app, I added the Ghostscript |> framework to /Library/Frameworks. Still... | | | Ghostscript at the wrong place only affects Print Preview and EPS import, | Scribus should still start up... | |> I wonder if the downloads gave me the latest version at all. From the |> .tar.bz2 file names, I've been under the impression that they'd |> reveal something dated July 2, but the app's dates are Jun 19 => ? | | | Tar files show the last modification date of the included files. Some | are alder than others. | Eg. Scribus.app/Contents/bin/scribus should be of July 3. | |> Also, could some kind and Unix-savy soul enlighten my how to apply |> the "source patch against 130cvs from July 2", or point me to some |> description of the patching process? | | | | You have three options: | | a) compile cvs without the patch | b) apply the patch to current cvs | c) apply the patch to cvs from July 2 | | Follow the instructions on scribus.net for a). This should give you a | working Scribus with just some minor glitches. | | For b), change to the top directory (the one which contains configure) | and execute the following after the cvs command: | | patch -p0 < /path/to/patchfile.diff | | If there are no rejections, you can continue as in a) | | To get the same version as I did compile, you have to modify the cvs | command. One is something like -D for the date and another option to use | earlier file versions if a file wasn't modified on that date. Please | consult the cvs manpage for that. After that the same as in b). | | | I don't recommend any of those, tho, especially if you are not used to | compile apps from scratch. Your problem is either some incompatibility | (I'm on 10.3.7) or you have too many or problematic fonts on your system. | The best way I can help you is if you send me the crash report and maybe | the output on the console (/Applications/Utilities/Console.app). | | Ciao | /Andreas | | _______________________________________________ | Scribus mailing list | Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de | http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus | | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFC3Q8cJmdQs+6YVcoRAoT2AJwLlN5Zi9c9UN502Sz56Z/LsF4CbwCeJ+SC UukoD4Wr+YIayLgnRtHuOJs= =AX7D -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
