On 12/27/18 12:01 PM, John K. Parejko wrote: > Yes, I can generate PDFs from LaTeX, using either pdflatex or xelatex. > Scribus even seems to be able to do so itself: the Render frame preview > appears to be built correctly within Scribus, showing the rendered LaTeX in > place. > > Is there a way to see the full the command that Scribus is running? > Hi again John,
You should be able to look in File > Preferences > External Tools and see the specific pdflatex command with any modifiers. Mine has 'LaTeX (Command: pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode)' The "Object is a placed PDF" is not really an error, it's just a message. When I made a simple render frame, then saved to PDF to the /tmp directory, there were 4 files generated. One was the plain text LaTeX document, with accompanying .aux and .log files, and then a PDF consisting only of the render frame results, and finally the final PDF which incorporates the placed PDF. Interestingly, when I tried this again but saved the final PDF to another directory, I couldn't find the other three. Can you find this find this file /var/folders/1s/x4hsw5kj4pdbnlvfw75zzkv40000gq/T/scribus_temp_render_QUKzdK.pdf? Greg > >> On 27Dec 2018, at 07:52, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: >> >> 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.
