>> 1. Can you describe the machine, including RAM and CPU > > G4, 2 GB Boot hard drive: 115 GB, HD2: 280 GB >> 2. What version of OS X > 10.4.8
This shouldn't keep scribus from running smoothly. (if you leave a min of 3 GB free on your primary disc) > >> 3. When you say you installed X11, did you use the original >> Developper Tools CDs that came with your machine > ?I installed the original from the Tiger disk, then I went on to the > Apple website and upgraded it > >> 4. Did you try installing Fink and have Fink install Scribus for you > No. What is Fink? >> >> Plus, it might be useful for us to know whether you have an enormous >> collection of fonts on that machine since this seems to be an issue >> for Scribus while building the font cache. > ?Yes. I have a LOT fonts on the 1st and 2nd hard drive >> >> 5. You could try removing a fair amount of fonts (you'll put them >> back later) > ?Should I move them to my external Hard drive? What if I have other > programs that depend on these fonts? > Andreas descriped the paths where scribus looks for fonts in a previous post - I lost it but I remember these are only the systems standard paths. [ system/library/fonts/ library/fonts/ users/xxxx/library/fonts/ /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts ] So, if you move some of your private fonts out of that locations it will be fine. For the process to remove them from X11 AND scribus caching I cannot provide any advice. Should be automatically rebuild - but I am not sure. > For a another try you should move ALL of your private fonts out of these folders/paths - and to be on the safe side temporarily deactivate any font-activation tool. You shouldn't move any system fonts. Let's see what happens. BTW a common cause for failures by reading out font paths by scribus might be the usage of special charcters e.g. ^?(/,.:-???+#!%$%&$!"?* in any part of the path. You might want to have Andreas answer to this before you try. >> 6. Did you try to install the Aqua version following all the >> instructions, including the place of the Lib files, etc. > Yes, I installed and tried both versions, (but not at the same time). > Lib files are in Users/macrisci/Library/Frameworks/(then are in their > respective? > ? ? ?folders). I left the framework folders alone when running > the Auqa version (I read somewhere that it was okay not to delete > them). >> >> If you are using OpenOffice and not NeoOffice (which is the Aqua >> version of OO.o and runs Aqua natively) it means you are running OO.o >> under X11. Does that work? > ?I have both OpenOffice and NeoOffice installed. Yes, they both run > fine. Both boot up perfectly, and Open office does start X11 (1.1.3, > XFree86 4.40)
