On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 10:52, Marcus Lindner wrote: > hi list! > > I downloaded, configured and installed scribus 1.0.1 and > scribus-scripting; after minor problems with QT (on Debian 3.0 I had to > link libqt-mt.3.so to libqt-mt.so ...) everything compiled&installed fine. > > However, after downloading, configuring and installing scribusscript 0.5 > scribus suddenly crashed; so I ran scribus via gdb (a debugger), which > slowed the startup down, so I saw it crashed when loading the > scripting-stuff. > > Uninstalling scribus-script solved this, just wonder what the problem > could be, since python v. 2.1 seems to run just fine.
You might want to see if there is a update to 2.2. I had problems with older versions of Python on RH and they went away once I updated to 2.2 > > Also, Scribus is almost unuseable when I use it with my desktop, > containing a ATI radeon 9000. After startup, all backgrounds are black, > and also I can't see a white font in a black box (I only see a black box). > But maybe this a problem with the GATOS-X-driver (for ati-cards). Most likely a driver issue WRT to Qt. Which version of Qt ? > > And BTW the refresh of the whole scribus-window when entering one char > into a textfield is really very annoying; I wanted to write down a small > interview, but I had to switch to 'vim'. This partly a Qt problem. Fixes are in the works. Qt 3.12 + Qt 3.2 are improved in this respect, especially Qt 3.2.+ > > Nevertheless I sucessfully managed to lay out a small newspaper, it > almost looks like the xpress-version. Now if just the scripting would work > ... > > And I really would like to see horizontally and verticaly scalable fonts > :) Create your text. click outside the the text frame - reselect, then Item > Convert to Polygons. Then un-group the polygons and then Item > Combine Polygons. Now, you have fonts which are turned into postscript outlines which can be filled, stretched etc.. > Hope that helps, Peter
