On Thu, 4 Feb 2016 19:34:47 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> 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. > > Greg > > ___ > In Linux I have multiple sign ons and multiple virtual screens. So I could sign on as user xxx on one screen and then go to another screen and sign on as user yyy. Each user would have his/her own support files. I could use copy from one instance of Scribus and paste on another instance using the other identity all on the same computer. Of course in a work environment you often don't have a choice of OS. I don't have the limitations of working on an office network controlled by someone else. I do have a router to which the other boxes are connected, My own recent horror story does not involve Scribus as such but may be of value as an example of what not to do. I have an off-brand desktop the has worked for several years as my workhorse. On disk 1 and the first partition I generally keep Windows. But I spend my work time on the third partition of the second disk. using Slackware Linux. Recently I needed to use an application that depends on a recent version of MS Windows. So I went on line to Ebay and bought a Win 7 dvd complete with valid identity number. Unfortunately it would not work through my router, also several years old. The new app works by contacting a data base out on the internet. I contacted everyone I could think of to get a driver that would work, including the manufacturer of the router (my model was too old) the manufacturer of the computer (just was bought by another firm and they had no specs on the older model) and several internet groups, all to no avail. The tech guy at the new computer company suggested that I take the cover off the computer, identify the chip set on the CPU and then contact Microsoft. At my age and with my shaky hands I did not attempt this pathway. Finally I filched my wife's laptop which praise be had been upgraded to Windows 7 in the first partition and would talk to my router through a wireless connection. I hate using a laptop but at least I got my app running. Sooner or later my wife will want the laptop back. There is nothing wrong with my router except that it is old. There is nothing wrong with my Desktop except that I can't get a Windows 7 driver for it. I would tear may hair out except Mother Nature has already done that. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
