[scribus] File path issue when opening sla files from Wiki

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Wed Nov 26 14:26:19 CET 2008


Julian Robbins wrote:
>> Craig Bradney wrote:
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>>>> On Tuesday 25 November 2008 19:37:15 Julian Robbins wrote:
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>>>>>> Hi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I am hoping to use Mindtouch DekiWiki as an Open Source wiki platform in
>>>>>> my company.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But, although I would like to migrate Scribus files and images over to
>>>>>> it I have found a problem.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The files are effectively opened from a webpage, which in turn opens
>>>>>> them usually as a temporary file. But it you try to do this with a
>>>>>> scribus .sla file then all the images aren't shown as its trying to use
>>>>>> the temporary file name path rather than just a local path like '.' All
>>>>>> my images are normally stored in the same folder that the Scribus file
>>>>>> is in, so it just needs to look in the same place that the Scribus file
>>>>>> was located.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Does anyone have any ideas to get around this issue ?
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>>>> dont  :) 
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>>>> or... use another solution that presents the whole set of sla files, images 
>>>> etc, as local files and then recollects them back to the wiki. Scribus can only 
>>>> handle local files at this point.
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>> Not exactly sure what you need, but the option File > Collect for Output 
>> will at least put the .sla file together with its images in one directory.
>>
>> Greg
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> I think the other issue is whether the images are linked relatively ie
> if they are in the same dir, it might be image path ='.', or whether the
> images are linked with absolute paths.
>
> I'm going to try the mindtouch wiki form, to see if they have any ideas too.
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images are linked with relative paths. Once you do Collect for Output, 
the files will be in the same directory as the .sla file.

Greg




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