On Friday 03 December 2010 01:33:44 John Beardmore wrote: > On 31/10/2010 10:22, Markus W. Barth wrote: > > The following review of the 1.5 svn version may be interesting > > for those interested in knowing how development goes. > > > > http://linuxgraphics.blogspot.com/p/scribus.html > > Is there an svn of 1,5 that can be downloaded for windows > please ? > > Information on this seems strangely sparse ! > > Please help !! > > > Cheers, J/.
Let's face it, for tasks like this Linux, and particularly Slackware Linux makes life easier. Slackware comes with the necessary tools for downloading and compiling 1.5.0. My suggestion: if you are just dying for 1.5.0 then put up a Slackware 13.0 partition somewhere, even on a big usb drive if necessary, and use something like the following, which works for me each night: --------------------------------------------- cd /usr/local/src/scribus_svn svn co svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk/Scribus cd ./Scribus cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr/local/scribus_svn make make install ls -l /usr/local/bin/scrib5 rm /usr/local/bin/scrib5 ln /usr/local/scribus_svn/bin/scribus /usr/local/bin/scrib5 ls -l /usr/local/bin/scrib5 ---------------------------------------- This is not a case of "my OS is better than your OS" but rather that there are horses for courses and Slackware has all the tools for this kind of compilation. Windows and other versions of Linux (e.g. Debian family) will require downloading a c ++ compiler , a linker, an svn program and so on. I use 1.5.0 for only one reason. It offers PDF X/1-a output and this is required for covers by LSI. The only alternatives I have found is Acrobat Distiller or a progam called pstill which is extraordinarily complex, e.g.: /usr/local/pstill_dist/pstill -M default -d 400 -m \ XPDFX="SWOP US" -m XPDFXVERSION-1A \ -m XimgAsCMYK -m Xoverprint -o final.pdf flatfile.ps -- John Culleton, typesetting and indexing http://wexfordpress.com book sales http://wexfordpress.net Free barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
