[scribus] receving error message "can not write the file" (pdf)

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Mon Dec 7 18:22:11 CET 2009


On Monday 07 December 2009 14:06:21 Jeffrey Silverman wrote:
> Um, windows? It says "on windows" as the 7th and 8th words.
>
> <snip!>
>
> > What OS? Offhand it sounds like you are trying to write to a 
folder
> > where you don't have write permissions.  On Linux you sign 
 on as
> > "root"  and cd to the directory just above the one you are 
writing
> > to. To free up directory "foo" the statement is
> > chmod 777 foo
> > If you have windows I don't know how you fix it.
> > --
> > John Culleton

OK, someone who is windows-proficient please answer the query. 
I have been using mostly Linux since about 1996. 
-- 
John Culleton
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