Craig Ringer wrote: > dlwiggers at aeis.tv wrote: >> Hi list >> >> My problem is deeper. I am on a win2k box now and cannot .pdf a 17x11 >> 3 page print. >> >> EXCEPTION_ACCESS_VIOLATION is the error. > > That error means that Scribus, or a component used by Scribus, tried to > read or modify memory it has not allocated or tried to execute memory > that contains only data. > > Unfortunately without a backtrace from a debugger (something that's > rather hard to get on Windows, a little tricky for most users on Linux, > and trivial on Mac OS X) it's not really possible to tell what caused it. > > It might be worth filing a bug with the .sla file and all associated > fonts and images. You can make it private if you want to prevent > fonts/image/text from being visible to the world. There is a size limit, > though, so you might find you're not able to upload it if it's more than > a few megabytes. > > Failing that, do check on Linux and see how you go. > > -- > Craig Ringer > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > Pragmatically, I found that if I flatten the .tif with Gimp before using it in Scribus, it apparently does not exceed the limits. Arch B size page. Also if I use .jpg rather than .tif, it works, although the .jpg file size is larger.
Mdv 2008.1 works either way. I'll try win2k today sometime, but I'd bet on a Vista problem. Lee
