[Scribus] Debugging problems with start on OSX

[jon]

> Andreas,
>
> I must have had the wrong ghostscript installed. It's fine now.
> I have another question: Is there documentation available? I went to  
> the HELP menu, and it said that there was none with the program.

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Main_Page

> The reason why I'm asking is: I'm very fluent in DTP. I set a text  
> box, went to the text tool, went to set a font, and there were no  
> fonts showing when I went to choose one. Strange. I checked the font  
> paths, and fonts are listed (i didn't change anything), but they are  
> not showing up. I can, however, import a "loren Ipsum" document. The  
> print shows as a dcoument.

Seems to be a "feature".
Create Text box, double click into Text Box (blinking cursor), go to  
probperty pallette (F2), go to text, choose a font - typing is now  
enabled.
OR
Create Text Box, with the box active go to Story Editor.

:-) Jon

>
> Michael Crisci
>
>
> "The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by  
> the way its animals are treated."
>
> ? ? ?- Mahatma Ghandi
>
>
>
> On Feb 1, 2007, at 8:48 PM, avox wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> Michael Crisci wrote:
>>>
>>>> If Scribus still complains, go to Preferences, External Tools and
>>>> enter the
>>>> following path for Ghostscript:
>>>> /Library/Ghostscript.framework/bin/gsc
>>>
>>> It's still complaining even after I did what you asked. I then went
>>> to external tools in Scribus (which you did not
>>> specify to look in Scribus, so I was looking all around my
>>> Preferences files). But I went back to scribus, and using the
>>> "change" button, I went pointed to this path:
>>>
>>> /Library/Frameworks/ghostscript.framework/configure
>>>
>>> Ghostscript doesn't complain now, but did I point it correctly?
>>>
>>
>> Did you download AFPL Ghostscript 8.54 from http://aqua.scribus.net/ ?
>> I just checked, there is no .../configure file in that package, but  
>> there
>> is a binary at .../bin/gsc .
>>
>> /Andreas
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