[scribus-dev] "Blank" document, scribus 1.4.3

[Mika Aleksandroff]

Joop,

returning to this, as I am f****d again and would appreciate some advice..

A summary of what I've done and why..

As the document didn't work anymore with 1.4.3 (all objects invisible)
I had to switch to 1.5-svn do the final edits/repairs. The latest
scribus-trunk for Mint 15 was from January and that was so slow in
everything that I really couldn't use that. So I installed Mint 17 on
another machine and got scribus-trunk from 15th April 2014 on it. This
was usable albeit much slower than 1.4.3.

Ok, yesterday I did edits and yes, it was really flaky, couldn't
really do much actual rework for the pages but luckily all I have to
do are more or less minor edits and corrections. Saved and finished
working last night and shut the machine down.

Opened the machine and the document today and it was "blown to
pieces". Half the pages were gone, and half of the ones that were left
were more or less not where they should've been (not on pages but on
workspace next to pages)..

So right now I am trying to compile the very latest svn from sources
and keeping my fingers crossed the problem is in rendering a working
document and not that the document itself is mangled somehow beyond
repair.

My backup plan is to try and find the 1.4.4 for Mint 17 (Ubuntu
Trusty) and hope that it can open the documents I've done with 1.4.3
and only loose yesterday's work.

Any ideas what could be wrong/problem? The document in question is
about 1 MB in size, so not that big. I can probably send for
inspection if wanted.


.mika










On 5 May 2014 20:27, Mika Aleksandroff <mika.aleksandroff at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5 May 2014 19:58, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> I think that you sent that to me instead of the list.
>
> Ah, apparently yes.. Corrected..
>
>> Does Mint 16 have a different version of Scribus than Mint 15?
>>
>> I have Fedora, and the Fedora maintainers often back-port patches.  Mint
>> probably does the same.
>>
>> It is possible that the Mint 16 build has some fixes either to Scribus or to
>> some of the libraries that it uses.
>
> Hmm, so it has.. Mint 15 scribus-trunk (from daily build PPA) is
> 1.5.0svn201401280304-29~ubuntu13.04.1 whereas the same scribus-trunk
> for Mint 16 is 1.5.0svn201404221504-29..
>
> Damn, so now I either have to upgrade my Mint 15 to 16 or try
> compiling it by hand to verify if the cause for the change is the
> other machine or some change in code. Well, probably code..
>
> But, nevertheless, while this probably somewhat solves my problem it
> doesn't explain why the document is broken in 1.4.3..
>
>
> .mika
>
>
>>> Date: Mon, 5 May 2014 19:47:42 +0300
>>> Subject: Re: [scribus-dev] "Blank" document, scribus 1.4.3
>>> From: mika.aleksandroff at gmail.com
>>> To: williambader at hotmail.com
>>
>>>
>>> Joop,
>>>
>>> an update to this..
>>>
>>> Haven't got time to try compiling but I did try this: I upgraded
>>> another laptop with Mint 15 to Mint 16 and tried scribus-trunk there
>>> and it seems usable, selecting objects is almost instantaneous (less
>>> than second). Ok, that laptop is a tad faster, a Core Duo T2500 but
>>> not that much faster ot explain the difference. Interesting.
>>>
>>>
>>> .mika
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 3 May 2014 17:51, William Bader <williambader at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Hi,
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >> No it isn't. I can open multiple files and the ones that are ok open
>>> >
>>> > Also, I imagine that if the system ran so short on memory that a memory
>>> > allocation failed, scribus would probably crash.
>>> >
>>> >> > Since you have Linux, you could try building 1.4.5 from source with
>>> >> > profiling enabled. That would probably identify exactly what is
>>> >> > making it
>>> >> > slow.
>>> >
>>> >> Hmm, ok, I could try that.
>>> >
>>> > I think that you can put 'set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS} -pg
>>> > -g")'
>>> > in the top level CMakeLists.txt.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > http://voices.canonical.com/jussi.pakkanen/2013/03/26/a-list-of-common-cmake-antipatterns/
>>> >
>>> > Do you have the possibility to try scribus 1.5? I built it without
>>> > problems
>>> > on Fedora 20, but it took a lot of work on Fedora 17, and I gave up on
>>> > RHEL
>>> > 6 when I realized how many libraries I would need to rebuild. Judging
>>> > from
>>> > the version of gs built into the version of scribus on your Linux Mint
>>> > system, I suspect that it would be similar to Fedora 17 that you could
>>> > build
>>> > 1.5 but you would need to build newer versions of some third party
>>> > libraries
>>> > from source.
>>> >
>>> > Regards,
>>> > William
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>>
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