[scribus] Scribus 1.4.1 on FreeBSD 10: error importing images

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Mon Aug 27 12:43:25 UTC 2012


On 08/27/2012 08:09 AM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
> Þann mán 27.ágú 2012 11:55, skrifaði Gregory Pittman:
>> On 08/27/2012 07:41 AM, Sveinn í Felli wrote:
>>> Þann mán 27.ágú 2012 10:12, skrifaði ale rimoldi:
>>>> ihi sveinn,
>>>>
>>>>> Can confirm these extra ../../../ in my .sla everywhere I
>>>>> did drop a file onto an image-frame. Images directory is a
>>>>> subdirectory of the .sla
>>>>>
>>>>> Scribus Version 1.4.1
>>>>> 30 April 2012
>>>>> Build ID: C-C-T-F-C1.10.2-64bit
>>>>> LinuxMint 13 - based on Ubuntu 12.04.1 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
>>>>>
>>>>> Any cure for this ?
>>>>
>>>> do you have any symlinks around?
>>>>
>>>> ciao
>>>> a.l.e
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>> Figured it out right after sending the mail.
>>>
>>
>> You might want to think about using Collect for Output on a given
>> project, so that copies of images end up in a project folder.
>>
>> Greg
> 
> I surely do, after the project matures a bit more. But I'm just
> reopening the same project in the same application as was showing me the
> images just a couple of days before.
> 
> It's not a big deal, but could be frustrating to new users. Still there
> seems to be problems with symlinks, maybe it's a problem in Nautilus or
> in Scribus.
> 
> While we're at it; I'm sure it would be appreciated having the file path
> info available on the Image-tab in Properties panel; it being editable
> would be an orgy.

Ultimately, I think it's because Scribus uses relative rather than
absolute pathnames. This is also why things get messed up when you move
an SLA file but not its images.

Greg




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