a.l.e wrote: > hi all > >> Has anyone here who runs karmic been able to create a PDF? >> >> The karmic version of Scribus gives a build date that matches the >> date for jaunty, but I get a Scribus crash every time I try to >> generate a PDF even though it worked fine in jaunty. (This is the >> scribus-ng package, which has always worked fine for me in the past, >> through the last several Kubuntu releases.) > > last friday i introduced scribus to a new user. > > on windows vista and scribus 1.3.3.13. > > we have been welcomed by a crash on the file open dialog! (it was open > for a "longer" time and i was showing the different option). > > scribus kept crashing about every 20 minutes. > > at the end we produced a pdf of the document: the picture on the cover > was missing in the pdf file (we were following the "official" magazine > tutorial). > > we cleared the picture and produced a pdf again. > acrobat could not read the pdf. > when producing the pdf again, scribus crashed. > > restart scribus and produce the pdf. > acrobat can't read it. > producing it again crashed scribus. > > and so on. > > i could open the file in 1.5svn and produce a pdf (without the picture) > and i could also open the file with a 1.3.3.13 on linux (always without > a picture). > > the user told me that scribus is crashing a bit less than it did on > that evening. > > > now: is there anything the user can do to get a better scribus > experience (i guess that moving to linux is not an option for now)? > > is there anything i can do to find out where the problem is? > > > the thing i find most disturbing is the corrupted pdf...
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