Elaine wrote: > Good morning once more ... I've persuaded Scribus to launch by moving > the framework folders individually to the Library/Frameworks folder.
Great! > Duh. However it came about that the Scribus framework items were > nestled inside another folder, taking them out does the trick. Hm, I remember others have stumbled over that... > Now that it's launching, another issue has surfaced. It spent maybe 10 > minutes looking about for fonts. Yes, font search on startup is still slow. I've a PB G4 with 1024 MB RAM so it's bearable here. > I've a *huge* Console file on where it > found what ... there's only the standard Panther fonts installed ... If > you need that Console file, Andreas, I'll send it to you off-list. That's not necessary. > I've > installed the basic Panther on to the G3 powerbook I'm using - I've not > updated to 10.3.9. The PB has only 256 ram and I'm not buying more for > it so am sticking with the leanest instal I can. Whether the OS version > is an issue, I'd be interested to know. I don't think so. At the moment Scribus just opens every single font file to look what's in there :-( > Also: the help files - were can I find this as a single item? It's very > helpful to have the Help/User Guide on another computer, saves a lot of > jiggling about with active windows. I've another powerbook sitting > around doing nothing so could put the help on that - and the tutorial. Find the location of Scribus in Folder, CTRL-click on its icon and select "Show contents". Then follow these subfolders: Contents -> share -> scribus -> doc -> en. Unfortunately this consists only of an unlinked collections of html files at the moment. > Each to his/her own - programming is not for me. I'm grateful to my > friend for introducing me to Macs - I was 58 when I bought my first > computer. Cool. Always impresses me when people your age are open for something new! > Had it been a doze machine or something more complex which > needed tweaking and command typing I would not still be using a > computer. Now at 63, there's a few precious years left which, for me, > are better spent in the garden, travelling and being with my partner, > than mistressing the intricacies of C:\ or the *nix equivalent. Understandable. I'll try to put up an installer, not for the next snapshot but for the following one. Might also do something about font search at startup. > Thank you to everyone who's helped, I'm looking forward to giving > Scribus a test drive - something I have got some familiarity with is > desktop publishing, at least in its basic form. There's a sample copy > of the newsletter I do (was using Pagemaker for this one) at > <http://homepage.mac.com/ozorgans/>. Ciao Andreas
