I thought I would share some experience about using ScribusPortable on the hospital network where I work.
What I rely on is the fact that I have my own space for documents, etc. on a network server. This is useful, since I may be logging into any one of 30, 40 or more different computers throughout the day. For each desktop I use, I set up a desktop shortcut to Scribus. When I install ScribusPortable, I install it on this server space of mine (which is really the only place it could go, since I don't have write privileges to the desktop hard disks), and it installs into a directory named ScribusPortable. Yesterday I upgraded to 1.4.5 as it became available, and obviously I wanted to preserve my settings and so on. First, I renamed the old directory to make sure I didn't overwrite its contents. Then install the new version -- this goes very smoothly, by the way. Fortunately, ghostscript is installed in an outside directory which must be called CommonFiles, so nothing needs to be done with that. My settings are in ScribusPortable/Data/Scribus, so I copy prefs140 and scribus140.rc from the old to the new. I also can copy any scrapbook items from ScribusPortable/Data/Scribus/scrapbook. Something else I have done to personal taste is to plant some of my own scripts in the basic scripts directory. These are in ScribusPortable/App/Scribus/share/scripts. Other scripts elsewhere maintain continuity through the basic settings of where to look for other scripts. Having completed this short list of operations, I can without any interruption continue to use ScribusPortable throughout the hospital using the existing desktop shortcuts, all my settings and recent file lists, and scripts intact. This is quite convenient! Greg
