On 30 April 2011 06:12, Mike Sleger <chappa-ai at q.com> wrote: > Hello, I've been using Scribus for over a year now on a Windows XP system > and currently in the transition to a new MacBook Pro (i7 Intel quad-core). > I'm not too impressed with Apple's attempt at DTP through Pages and don't > have the money for Quark or InDesign. I'd like to keep using Scribus (I > like its features and price). I've read mixed reviews about its ability to > install and run on OS X and I haven't seen much information about it at the > Scribus site. So, some questions for anybody who's been using the OS X > version of Scribus on a MacBook: > > How complicated is the installation? >
Depends. If you install the .dmg from scribus: Download, unpack, copy to Apllications, run. I tried installing scribus with fink and it didn't work. That is fink didn't work and I didn't like it. I ended up installing scribus usimf homebrew ( http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/). After you have installed homeprew you need manually download the installation file for scribus ( http://www.schafproductions.com/assets/scribus.rb) und copy it to /usr/local/Library/Formula/. After that it you can install scribus by running brew install scribus. That is, if I haven't forgotten something. If something goes wrong just write me. > What is Aqua? > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface) > How "stable" is the current release? > I run scribus-1.4rc2 and never had any Problems. > How fast does it run? (It absolutely crawls on my Windows system with 4 GB > RAM) > No Problems on a Mac Book Air 13'' with 4Gb RAM. > Can files created in the Windows version be opened in the OS X version? > What are the equivalent versions between the two platforms? > That should work. At least Linux Files work on Mac. 1.4 on Mac is 1.4 on Windows. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110430/4bd5ec14/attachment.html>
