[scribus] receving error message "can not write the file" (pdf)

[michael crane]

> What OS? Offhand it sounds like you are trying to write to a folder
> where you don't have write permissions. ?On Linux you sign ?on as
> "root" ?and cd to the directory just above the one you are writing
> to. To free up directory "foo" the statement is
> chmod 777 foo
if the current working directory is in root's path ;-)