On 27Dec 2018, at 12:23, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 12/27/18 12:01 PM, John K. Parejko wrote: >> Yes, I can generate PDFs from LaTeX, using either pdflatex or xelatex. >> Scribus even seems to be able to do so itself: the Render frame preview >> appears to be built correctly within Scribus, showing the rendered LaTeX in >> place. >> >> Is there a way to see the full the command that Scribus is running? >> > Hi again John, > > You should be able to look in File > Preferences > External Tools and see the > specific pdflatex command with any modifiers. Mine has 'LaTeX (Command: > pdflatex --interaction nonstopmode)? Yes, I?m aware of that: that?s how I changed it to use xelatex. But that can?t be the full command that scribus is running, since it?s generating the files in a temporary directory (latex normally produces all output in the current working directory). > The "Object is a placed PDF" is not really an error, it's just a message. It must be an error, since you have to click ?Ignore Errors? to get to the PDF export window. > When I made a simple render frame, then saved to PDF to the /tmp directory, > there were 4 files generated. One was the plain text LaTeX document, with > accompanying .aux and .log files, and then a PDF consisting only of the > render frame results, and finally the final PDF which incorporates the placed > PDF. Interestingly, when I tried this again but saved the final PDF to > another directory, I couldn't find the other three. I just created a trivial document with a render frame with some math in it, and it was able to export to PDF. > Can you find this find this file > /var/folders/1s/x4hsw5kj4pdbnlvfw75zzkv40000gq/T/scribus_temp_render_QUKzdK.pdf? I just re-ran the export, and I can see and open the PDF file in /var/folders/? that scribus claims it ?Failed to load?. I wonder if there?s a timing mismatch, where scribus is checking for the file before it is fully written to disk? Another piece of data (useful or not) is that I cannot even place a render frame if I open the Scribus application directly; I get an error message that ?Your Render Frame configuration seems to be invalid?, but it doesn?t tell me which part is invalid, and the latex configuration is fine. But I can place render frames from the commandline (by running `/Applications/Scribus.app/Contents/MacOS/Scribus`), which makes me think that macOS SIP might be the cause of at least one of these problems. John >>> On 27Dec 2018, at 07:52, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote: >>> >>> On 12/27/18 4:06 AM, John K. Parejko wrote: >>>> Hello, >>>> >>>> I?m having trouble with Render frames on macOS (10.13.6). They preview ok >>>> in Scribus (1.5.4), but I cannot generate the PDF, getting an error like >>>> the following after clicking ?save? on the PDF export window: >>>> >>>> Cannot write the file: >>>> /Users/parejkoj/lsst/temp/AAS2019/poster/Parejko-AAS2019-jointcal-poster.pdf >>>> Failed to load an image : >>>> /var/folders/1s/x4hsw5kj4pdbnlvfw75zzkv40000gq/T/scribus_temp_render_QUKzdK.pdf >>>> >>>> The preflight checker also claims that the render frame ?Object is a >>>> placed PDF?, which I guess the output is, but that seems misleading given >>>> the goal of the render frame. >>>> >>>> I?ve put a ?Collect for output? version of the scribus project here: >>>> >>>> https://fiddlernet.net/temp/poster.tar.gz >>>> >>>> My only guess is that it might be related to the System Integrity >>>> Protection (SIP) introduced in macOS 10.11. I get the error whether I >>>> start by opening Scribus via the App icon, or by running >>>> `/Applications/Scribus.app/Contents/MacOS/Scribus` from a terminal. >>>> >>>> Any suggestions on how to handle this are welcome. The error message >>>> doesn?t provide much guidance. > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net
