On 05/02/2016 00:34, Gregory Pittman wrote: > First, I will admit that I messed up. I inadvertently marked the App > directory in ScribusPortable as hidden. The catastrophe that ensued > related to the fact that, although the system at work allows me to mark > a directory as hidden, I have no way to unhide the directory after that > (without getting IS involved). > > So yipes! I needed to use Scribus, I needed to use it right away! I > quickly found out ScribusPortable is more nonfunctional than functional > if the App directory is hidden. So I made use of ScribusPortableTest > (1.5.0) that I had available, altered some files, saved them, > understanding that I couldn't load a 1.5.x file into 1.4.x subsequently. > No problem, the first option seemed to be to stick with 1.5.x. Why not? > > The why not was that, for some reason, any lines on the page would not > print on the network computer. I had some lines to create writing > spaces, but also other lines for barcodes. None printed. I could find no > setting of color or transparency or whatever to explain this. Unacceptable. > > So I went to the bother to (re)load up ScribusPortable 1.4.6 onto my > network space. Ok, the plan was to recreate the document structure, copy > text from 1.5.0 to the frame in 1.4.6. A major obstacle was that you > can't run 1.4.6 and 1.5.0 simultaneously (this is Windows 7) - it told > me I already had Scribus running. Next plan: send the frames to > Scrapbook, then pull them into 1.4.6. The next obstacle was that I > couldn't load them directly by adding the Scrapbook directory from > 1.5.0. Nothing showed up. So I copied the files manually outside of > Scribus from ScribusPortableTest to ScribusPortable. > > Now I had access to these text frames, but found that on pasting them > into a document, all formatting and linebreaks were lost. More editing. > The other curious thing, which I only found by trying to print, was that > each frame was set not to print. Also fixable. > > In the end, even though I figured out how to do this, there were a > number of unexpected stumbling blocks along the way.
Sympathies ! We all have days (or weeks !) like that occasionally. I spent a chunk of today unsoldering a 12 way connector from a board because I put it on the wrong way round. Damn waste of time. More haste, less speed etc... At least the board withstood my abuse ! Cheers, J/. -- John Beardmore,MSc EDM (Open),B.A. Chem (Oxon),CMIOSH,CEnv,MIEMA,MEI Managing Director, T4 Sustainability Limited. http://www.T4sLtd.co.uk/ Reg. Office: Unit 1A Manners Court, Manners Avenue, Ilkeston. DE7 8EF Company Reg: 4441097, VAT Number: 797 2239 85, MCS: ELC54087 Energy, waste, water and sustainability audit, RPEC ESOS Lead Assessor Carbon Trust Waste, Water and Carbon Standard Registered Assessor Carbon Management / Reduction. Renewable energy design advice, consultancy, feasibility study, controls, design and installation. Phone: 0845 4561332 Mobile: 07785 563116 Skype: t4sustainability --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
