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

Sat Jun 14 13:30:25 UTC 2014

Joop,

okay, compiling 1.5.0 from sources doesn't seem to work, seems like
Qt5LinguistTools is missing:

-- Building for target i686-linux-gnu
-- Using standard ApplicationDataDir. You can change it with
-DAPPLICATION_DATA_DIR
-- ----- USE QT 5-----
-- ----- USE QT Widgets-----
-- ----- USE Qt5Gui -----
-- ----- USE QT 5 XML -----
-- ----- USE Qt5WebKit -----
-- ----- USE Qt5WebKitWidgets -----
-- ----- USE Qt5Network -----
-- ----- USE Qt5OpenGL -----
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:478 (FIND_PACKAGE):
  By not providing "FindQt5LinguistTools.cmake" in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH this
  project has asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by
  "Qt5LinguistTools", but CMake did not find one.

  Could not find a package configuration file provided by "Qt5LinguistTools"
  with any of the following names:

    Qt5LinguistToolsConfig.cmake
    qt5linguisttools-config.cmake

  Add the installation prefix of "Qt5LinguistTools" to CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH or
  set "Qt5LinguistTools_DIR" to a directory containing one of the above
  files.  If "Qt5LinguistTools" provides a separate development package or
  SDK, be sure it has been installed.

Any ideas on where to find it on Mint 17/Ubuntu 14.04?

Oh and 1.5.0-svn from April seems unusable after all. It seems
impossible to save the document without breaking it. When I re-open a
just saved document it is broken somehow, some objects are missing,
some have moved a little bit and so on.

I can not believe it can be in so bad shape that you can't really do
anything with, can it??  I have done the work yesterday and today on a
file which is on a usb stick, could that cause so much problems??

.mika

On 14 June 2014 14:41, Mika Aleksandroff <mika.aleksandroff at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
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> 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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