[Scribus] Trouble starting Mac version 1.3.3.2

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Amy Lama wrote:
> 
> ...
> However, when I clicked on the application icon, the start-up 
> screen came up, said "initializing" 
> 

If you got that far you installed everything correctly.



> and then "creating font cache" and 
> there it sat for as long as I thought was sufficient (5-10 minutes). It 
> never got past that part and I had to force quit it.
> 

First time Scribus is started it builds a font cache of all your fonts.
Subsequent times it's much faster on startup. So maybe you should
give it a little longer. 5 min might not be sufficient.



> Am I missing something? Is it a bug? Perhaps I don't have enough 
> memory? I'm running Mac OS 10.3.9 on an iBook G4 with 256 MB of RAM.
> 

Hm, I have 1024 MB. 256 MB might slow Scribus further down, especially
at first start.

My advice: Hook your iBook to a power supply, start Scribus and leave it
until it finished scanning fonts. I'd say it should be done after 30-60 min,
but if your computer has to resort to virtual memory it might take even 
longer.
Anyway, once it's done, close Scribus normally and start it again. It should
then start within 2 min.

/Andreas
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