On 12/27/18 4:06 AM, John K. Parejko wrote: > Hello, > > I?m having trouble with Render frames on macOS (10.13.6). They preview ok in > Scribus (1.5.4), but I cannot generate the PDF, getting an error like the > following after clicking ?save? on the PDF export window: > > Cannot write the file: > /Users/parejkoj/lsst/temp/AAS2019/poster/Parejko-AAS2019-jointcal-poster.pdf > Failed to load an image : > /var/folders/1s/x4hsw5kj4pdbnlvfw75zzkv40000gq/T/scribus_temp_render_QUKzdK.pdf > > The preflight checker also claims that the render frame ?Object is a placed > PDF?, which I guess the output is, but that seems misleading given the goal > of the render frame. > > I?ve put a ?Collect for output? version of the scribus project here: > > https://fiddlernet.net/temp/poster.tar.gz > > My only guess is that it might be related to the System Integrity Protection > (SIP) introduced in macOS 10.11. I get the error whether I start by opening > Scribus via the App icon, or by running > `/Applications/Scribus.app/Contents/MacOS/Scribus` from a terminal. > > Any suggestions on how to handle this are welcome. The error message doesn?t > provide much guidance. >
Hi John, Can you successfully create a PDF with Latex outside of Scribus? This would be a basic step to ensure you have the parts of LaTeX that you need. On Linux, you specifically need pdflatex to generate PDFs. Greg
