Hello, the problems reported by D.R. Evans with Scribus on Ubuntu 9.10 were definitly caused by the Scribus-NG package which is from January.
I compiled Scribus 1.5.0svn under Ubuntu and everything went fine - the document showed up without any problems and also the PDF export works fine. I'm not sure who is responsible for the Scribus packages in Ubuntu, but perhaps someone could provide an updated package for Scribus-ng?? If not or if you can't wait, here is a short tutorial how to compile Scribus 1.5.0svn under Ubuntu 9.10 (don't forget: its a developer version). Perhaps we should put it into the wiki?? -------------------------------- Short tutorial for compiling Scribus 1.5.0 SVN under Ubuntu 9.10 There are several possibilities how to compile and install Scribus on Ubuntu 9.10. The way which is described here, leaves an eventually already installed version of Scribus in its place and installs the new version into another directory (here: /opt/scribus). Let's go ;-) At first, install the compiler stuff: sudo apt-get install build-essential Now, some more packages are necessary: apt-get install subversion apt-get install qt4-qmake apt-get install libqt4-core apt-get install libqt4-dev apt-get install libtiff4-dev apt-get install python-dev apt-get install libcups2-dev It seems so, that there is also a version of cmake in the repositories. But apt-get was not able to install it, I just got some unmeaningful errors. So, I downloaded it (http://www.cmake.org/) and installed it on my own (configure / make / make install). If the command "apt-get install cmake" works for you, this is not necessary! Next, create a directory for Scribus' source code and go to it: mkdir ~/scribus_src cd ~/scribus_src Create a directory where you want to install Scribus (I used /opt/scribus): sudo mkdir /opt/scribus Next, download the Scribus SVN sourcecode: svn co svn://scribus.info/Scribus/trunk/Scribus Change to the new directory Scribus: cd Scribus Run cmake with the PATH where you want to install Scribus (here: /opt/scribus): cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/opt/scribus Compile Scribus: make ... and, last not least, install it as root user: sudo "make install" You should now be able to start your new Scribus with the command: /opt/scribus/bin/scribus
