pretty much a newbie here.

i got scribus 0.9.6 to compile just fine, but when i try to run 'scribus' nothing happens (aside from the fact that the cpu usage shoots to 100% and stays there till I ctrl-C it).

so i read that i probably need a scribusfonts.rc file. so i made one, and i still get the same behavior.

i'm guessing this has something to do with fonts. if anyone could point me in the right direction i'd be grateful -- there doesn't seem to be much troubleshooting info for scribus out there on the web. i'm running mandrake 9, and for fonts i think it's using the xfs server.

thanks!

I have the same problem with Redhat 8.0 Still not been able to fix it.

I got in contact with the programmer and hopefully he'll be able to help me out. I'll report my results here.

MeLassen

I am currently running Scribus 0.8 on SuSE 8.1 however, it is having issues with fonts mainly - it has a few fonts but how they appear in the list is odd and the fact that you cannot change font colour. The developer has posted patches to correct some of these but then I wondered if I should just axe 0.8 and download and compile 0.9 instead - now I am even more concerned if you two can't even get it to run at all.

Please keep us posted as to your progress... I am a true newbie - not a programmer either

I contacted the creator of Scribus and he told me that I probably have a problem with the QT font dir. I asked him how to change, but he has not responded yet. I don't think this is the problem, since QT is working fine (QT is the thingy that manages anti aliasing of fonts, right?). I'll contact him again and maybe ask him to join the discussion here, since it may be useful for more people than just me.

ciao
MeLassen

This is the response from Scribus:

Hello,

you wrote on Thu. 25.02.2003:
>I installed scribus 0.9 under redhat 8.0 without errors but when I start
>it I see the following message:
>
>scribus: relocation error: scribus: undefined symbol: __ti7QWidget
>
>What did I do wrong?
Scribus takes the wrong Qt-Lib, is QTDIR set correctly?

Best Regards,
Franz Schmid

Hope someone can help
MeLassen

There is one other thing that i did not mention - I have updated KDE to 3.1... I seem to be having bizzare problems with OpenOffice too

Crashes every time I try to save a document

The fonts should be specified in
"scribusfont.rc", without the 's'.
"scribusfonts.rc" is never looked at during start-up.

Some tutorials seem to've got that wrong.

At least this is true for Scribus V. 1.2.2CVS for Debian.

Johannes