Alex Mandel wrote: > Gregory Pittman wrote: >> Here is something I've never tried and not sure if it would work... >> >> Someone at work is wanting to use Scribus on her Windows computer at >> home. Unfortunately she has a dialup connection and the download won't >> work. >> >> 1. Is it possible for me to download from Sourceforge and put it on a CD >> for her? Will that work? >> 2. Is it possible to run Scribus from a CD? This might allow her to use >> it at work, where the computers won't allow users to install software. >> >> Greg >> > > USB stick will probably work much better. I personally use > portableapps.com to give a nice little launch menu. I don't think > scribus has been packaged for their setup yet, but there's an easy > workaround as long as no registry entries are required. > > Here's what I do(tested with Inkscape) > 1. Install portableapps, just the 1MB version with the menu is enough. > 2. Install your app on a machine, then copy the app folder(probably in > C:Program File) to the usb drive, putting the folder under the > portableapps folder on the usb drive. Any exe in the top level of the of > this folder will show up on the menu once you refresh. > > Speed will be significantly faster as long as you have usb 2.0, and you > can keep files on it. Plus I'm not sure if scribus has any config files > that get modified, if so you'd need the writable media. > > Alex There is Portable Scribus, though not as part of the Portable Apps Suite. I haven't used it for a while, and didn't try the latest version, but you can find it at http://www.quate.net/newsnet/read/31.
The version you get there at the moment is 1.3.3.12. Best wishes and good luck, Andreas -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 260 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20090416/d84351ae/attachment.pgp>
