[Scribus] Can't print to file /path/to/foobar.pdf

[Plinnell]

On Tuesday 15 August 2006 06:45, [KS] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm making a catalog for an exhibition (yes, again ;)) and wanted
> to see how the document was progressing by creating a pdf. Right
> now I just have text, some gradient boxes and 2 templates in that
> document. I tried to export it to a pdf and it gave me an error:
> Can't print to file /path/to/foobar.pdf
>
> This doesn't have to do anything with file permissions as I'm in my
> home folder. This machine is a Debian Unstable running 2.6.16-1-686
> with scribus 1.2.5.dfsg-2 installed on it.
>
> I did an strace and got an error on the console:
> ~/tmp/attachments/cwott-eu$ strace -o debug-scribus-new.txt scribus
> Can't find Plugin/usr/lib/scribus/libs/libpdf.so: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> and the /usr/lib/scribus/libs/ shows me the following:
> ~/tmp/attachments/cwott-eu$ ls -al /usr/lib/scribus/libs/
> total 868
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Aug 13 13:36 .
> drwxr-xr-x 5 root root   4096 Aug 13 13:36 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Aug 13 13:36 libabout ->
> libabout.0.0.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     14 Aug 13 13:36
> libabout.0 -> libabout.0.0.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  81744 Aug  9
> 16:27 libabout.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    834 Aug  9 16:17 libabout.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 Aug 13 13:36 libpdf -> libpdf.0.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     12 Aug 13 13:36 libpdf.0 -> libpdf.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 409152 Aug  9 16:27 libpdf.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    822 Aug  9 16:21 libpdf.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Aug 13 13:36 libpostscript ->
> libpostscript.0.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     19 Aug 13 13:36 libpostscript.0 ->
> libpostscript.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 131692 Aug  9 16:27 libpostscript.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    864 Aug  9 16:20 libpostscript.la
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     20 Aug 13 13:36 libpreferences ->
> libpreferences.0.0.0
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     20 Aug 13 13:36 libpreferences.0 ->
> libpreferences.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 221040 Aug  9 16:27 libpreferences.0.0.0
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root    870 Aug  9 16:17 libpreferences.la
>
> If anyone wants to inspect the debug file, let me know I still have
> it. The last time I was using scribus, it was 1.2.3 and the pdf
> creation was working fine. Did something change with regards to
> libpdf.so?
>
> thanks,
> /kds

Hi,

I suspect there was a problem with an autotools update which caused 
some problems with the 1.2.5 package. 

You can revert to 1.2.4.1 or wait until Alex updates the package.

Alternatively, you could also install scribus-ng, which is 1.3.3.x, 
but once saved in 1.3.x it is not longer compatible in 1.2.x (We warn 
you...)

Hope that helps,
Peter
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