2008/9/11 Allen McBride <allencmcbride at gmail.com> > Hi folks, > > I installed Scribus on my Mac (Intel, OS 10.5) using MacPorts, which gave > me version 1.3.3.11. It mostly works great, but when I try to change any > option in the Properties dialog that requires a drop-down menu (or any kind > of sub-menu or sub-dialog; I don't really know the proper terms), these > menus are drawn behind the Properties dialog window, so I can only see bits > on the edges. Same with tooltips. I couldn't find anything about this in > the documentation; can anyone suggest a way to get around it? > > Also, I'm curious to try version 1.3.5svn... is there anything special I > have to do to have both that and 1.3.3.11 installed at the same time? > > Thanks for any help! > --Allen >
Hi Allen, I am also responding to your second (same) post. To be honest, I thought someone more knowledgeable than me would give you more straightforward answers! But apparently, everyone is busy so let me give it a quick shot. 1.3.3.x on the Mac is somewhat a dead end in my view. It relies on an underlying piece of work named Qt that handles most of the GUI. The Qt version for 1.3.3.x is Qt 3 and it has its load of issues, especially under Mac OS X. This might include the issues you are currently experiencing, but I cannot tell for sure. The Sribus team has moved to Qt version 4 but this is implemented only in the development version of Scribus, 1.3.5svn. This version works much better on a Mac than 1.3.3.x but it is nonetheless *not* meant for production. We can only encourage Mac people to use Scribus and report bugs but it is unadvisable to use it for serious work. Only serious testings! :-) You can run both Scribus versions on a Mac. I am not aware of issues regarding this. I run many versions of Scribus on my Mac Book Pro running Mac OS X 10.4.x. There seem to be no interference between those versions, afaik. HTH Louis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080915/418eb845/attachment.htm>
