Thank you, your instructions fixed the ?Your Render Frame configuration seems to be invalid? problem I was having. I can now start scribus via the application, instead of having to run it from a terminal.
Has anyone tried to export to PDF from the bundle I made? https://fiddlernet.net/temp/poster.tar.gz John > On 27Dec 2018, at 13:20, Br. Samuel Springuel <rpspringuel at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Where is xelatex installed? GUI launched apps have very restricted PATH in > macOS. If you can do something from the command line but not the GUI, then > that might be the problem. I've run into a similar problem myself with > lualatex. You can see the procedure I used to get around it here: > > http://gregorio-project.github.io/introduction-scribus.html > > > ???????????????????????????????????????????????? > Br. Samuel, OSB (R. Padraic Springuel) > St. Anselm?s Abbey 4501 South Dakota Ave, NE > Washington, DC, 20017 > 202-269-2300 > (c) 202-853-7036 > > PAX ? ??????? > >> On Dec 27, 2018, at 1:52 PM, John K. Parejko <parejkoj at gmail.com> wrote: >>> On 27Dec 2018, at 12:23, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: >>>> 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)? >> Yes, I?m aware of that: that?s how I changed it to use xelatex. But that >> can?t be the full command that scribus is running, since it?s generating the >> files in a temporary directory (latex normally produces all output in the >> current working directory). >>> The "Object is a placed PDF" is not really an error, it's just a message. >> It must be an error, since you have to click ?Ignore Errors? to get to the >> PDF export window. >>> 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. >> I just created a trivial document with a render frame with some math in it, >> and it was able to export to PDF. >>> Can you find this find this file >>> /var/folders/1s/x4hsw5kj4pdbnlvfw75zzkv40000gq/T/scribus_temp_render_QUKzdK.pdf? >> I just re-ran the export, and I can see and open the PDF file in >> /var/folders/? that scribus claims it ?Failed to load?. I wonder if there?s >> a timing mismatch, where scribus is checking for the file before it is fully >> written to disk? >> Another piece of data (useful or not) is that I cannot even place a render >> frame if I open the Scribus application directly; I get an error message >> that ?Your Render Frame configuration seems to be invalid?, but it doesn?t >> tell me which part is invalid, and the latex configuration is fine. But I >> can place render frames from the commandline (by running >> `/Applications/Scribus.app/Contents/MacOS/Scribus`), which makes me think >> that macOS SIP might be the cause of at least one of these problems. >> John >>>>> 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.
