[scribus] Opening Scribus Documents on Mac OS X

a.l.e ale.comp_06 at xox.ch
Sat Jun 11 09:17:52 UTC 2011


hi mike,

> Granted, I'm new to Macs, but it seems to me that if I open a Scribus
> document from the Documents folder in Finder or on the dock, Scribus
> should start up WITH the document opened.  (This is what happens on
> Windows.)  Instead, what happens on the Mac is Scribus starts up and
> displays the New Document dialog.  I then have to manually click on
> Open Existing Document and navigate to the document that was supposed
> to be opening already from double-clicking it in the Documents
> folder.  (Canceling the New Document dialog has Scribus remaining
> open WITHOUT the document open that had caused Scribus to start in
> the first place.)  Is there some setting I need to enable somewhere
> to have documents actually open with Scribus without having to
> manually open them from within Scribus?


i know there was a bug on mac, not sure if it has been fixed.
i thought that somebody had a look at it, but from your feedback it seems that the issue is not fixed, yet!

the workaround is to always first open the application and then open the file...

ciao
a.l.e



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