Thanks, the comments help! Jim On Mar 11, 2008, at 6:54 AM, Plinnell wrote:
> O.k., time inflation, I guess. Since everything else is inflating, why > not time, too? > I listed a number of things that don't work. I basically have a simple > text editor, with no page layout functionality. Does Ghostscript > provide the latter? Is it possible that I have a wrong version of > Ghostscript, or put it in the wrong folder? I thought I followed the > installation instructions. Can someone feed me an intelligent question? > JayBee > > > > On Mar 10, 2008, at 2:12 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > >> Jim Baker wrote: >>> Several weeks ago, I posted a query about getting Scribus/Aqua >>> operative on my Mac Powerbook G4 (Titanium). I got an email next day >>> saying this message was being evaluated or something like that for >>> posting. As far as I know it never did appear. Is this a help list or >>> what? >> >> Funny, I see a message from you on the list "[Scribus] installing on >> Mac >> OS X 10.3.9", from exactly one week ago. I that what you are referring >> to? > Please see: > > http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=3 > > >> >> On 3/03/2008, Jim Baker wrote: >>> Scribus/Aqua installs fine and opens on my Titanium (G-4) PowerBook, >>> and I followed the directions from the website to download and place >>> Ghostscript into the Library:Frameworks folder. I tried two different >>> versions of Ghostscript, the most recent one seems to crash Scribus >>> as >>> soon as I try to use tools. >>> >>> Scribus actually opens but text boxes don't take text (or anything), >>> though the story board does. The table tool seems to work, and some >>> others. In the story board, only a default font is activated, no >>> styles >>> are possible, no text color, etc. In other words, text input is a >>> font, >>> but like a simple text editor. >>> > > Known Issue: > http://www.scribus.net/index.php? > name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=6&page=1 > >>> Any suggestions? >>> JayBee >> >> Since you didn't ask any question and are running a very old version >> of >> MacOSX, it is entirely possible that nobody had any suggestions. > > Correct, and I can say that upgrading to at least 10.4.x will probably > be a > requirement not far in the future. It will be increasingly difficult to > support 10.3.x. > > I can tell you from my experience just building Scribus Aqua is > difficult at > best on 10.3.x and I have wrestled with compiling Scribus on some not > so > common platforms like Cygwin and earlier versions of Solaris x86. > >> -- >> Martin >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > It takes 20 years of hard work to become an overnight success." --Diana Rankin, writer and public speaker
