[scribus] collecting for output

Mon Dec 9 15:35:52 UTC 2013

Dear Rolf,

thank you very much for looking into it.

We have been happily using collecting-for-output for several years on
several versions. Our project is somewhat dynamic, so we have often
reason to move projects between computers, and we like it for
all-in-one-backup too.

We have so far understood its usefulness and its limitations. I like it.
The compress does not claim to compress the entire folder; it just
nicely compresses the scribus-file within that folder. We like it that way.

The only issue we are having now, is the workflow between different
users. I thank you for confirming that on your machine it also does
assign surprising file-rights for fonts and illustrations. This tells me
that it is not just some hiccup on our office machine.

I guess I will after all pose this question to the developers, maybe
they know where to tweak it. Where would I get in touch with them? Is
filing a bug really the right thing to do; or should I not first ask it
somewhere as a question?

thanks,

Martin

On 09.12.2013 15:39, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> you are right. Just tested it, never used it before. The .sla keeps 655,
> but pictures and/or fonts get 600.
> 
> Furthermore: Scribus itself sets its file pointer to this new directory.
> That is confusing. I would expect this to act like an export function.
> 
> When I check "compress", I get a .gz file which is not unpackable by
> unzip, the pictures have disappeared from it. But it has 655. Fonts are
> not packed into it but delivered separately, they have 600.
> 
> Another confusing thing is that the directory has to exist before, the
> function cannot make it.
> 
> Anyway, this is a Suse 12.1 with Scribus 1.4.2, so it is reproduceable
> even on an older system, and to me it is kinda "not thought up to its end".
> 
> If you use it this way, I would not use the compress option but include
> e. g. the fonts. And a script to change the files to 655 BEFORE they are
> handed on (because at that time, they still belong to the person who
> worked on them) should be the best workaround to cope with it.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 
> Am 09.12.2013 13:45, schrieb ZASKE Martin:
>> Dear Peter and list,
>>
>>
>> The ownership for the Scribus-collected-for-output never changes:
>>
>> Example:
>>
>> My wife was the owner of the folder and she has just finished layouting
>> the children's-page. Then she has somehow managed to tweak the
>> permissions (my temporary script) and now I got the rights to pull the
>> entire folder to my home as a copy.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Now the entire folder and all its content is owned by me (user =
>> martin), since I created the copy.
>>
>> Now I open the scribus document and I do the layout for the
>> agriculture-fertilizer-page. And when I am done I do
>> collecting-for-output.
>>
>>
>> I was the owner of each photo and of each font, when I started working
>> with Scribus, but after the output, again the rights get turned to
>> "owner only, group and others get lost".
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> So now, before I can tell the next team member that I am done, and he or
>> she can pull his/her copy, I need to tweak the rights again. Otherwise
>> the next person would not even have the rights to pull a copy.
>>
>>
>> So ownership does not seem to be the problem either.
>>
>>
>> Thanks again and please keep the ideas coming. I am very hesitant to
>> file a bug, for something I need to understand first. I appreciate those
>> developers and the last thing they need is to be bothered. I just wonder
>> where I might find documentation about the collecting-for-output.
>>
>> I learnt this morning that in dolphin I can display a column for the
>> "rights" of each file or folder. Very useful for my problem. All morning
>> I have done layout of another page. And I was using LibreOffice and Gimp
>> a lot. I can report that the outputs (save or export) of the other
>> programs produce a default right of "-rw-r--r--" as seems right with my
>> umask (0022) that I quoted earlier today.
>>     So I hope this means that my OS is not entirely messed up. In fact it
>> is a fresh installation of OpenSuse 12.3 as of last week. I still hope
>> to update, but we are talking hundreds of MB and our African internet
>> has not even managed this morning to "refresh" the repositories, it
>> keeps stalling on timeouts.
>>
>> At this stage I would hope there is some other user on this list, also
>> using Scribus 1.4.2, preferably on OpenSuse, who would please do a
>> collecting-for-output and let us know what rights get assigned to the
>> Scribus files, and to the photos and to the fonts.
>>     I did not mess with my OS and my Scribus is also fresh and all
>> default
>> (just the entire OS and Scribus are running in French, which is needed
>> for this country).
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> Martin
>>
>>
>>
>> On 09.12.2013 13:19, Peter Nermander wrote:
>>>> But, all the other files (.png and .ttf) did receive
>>>> -rw-------
>>>> which is exactly the problem, why I opened this thread.
>>>
>>> What was the ownership of the original files and the ownership of the
>>> copies?
>>>
>>>> Peter, if you could help me further please, to localize, where exactly
>>>> those rights are assigned (almost against what my user-umask
>>>> prescribes)
>>>> then I might be able to fix it - and get my whole team into a smooth
>>>> work-flow.
>>>
>>> I have no knowledge of what operations Scribus use to perform the
>>> "collect for output", my comment about the umask was just "basic linux
>>> knowledge", so you might need to get in contact with the devs (file a
>>> bug report). But first make sure all other issues have been sorted out
>>> so you can be sure it's a problem with Scribus.
>>>
>>> /Peter
>>>
>>> ___
>>> Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>>> Edit your options or unsubscribe:
>>> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus
>>> See also:
>>> http://wiki.scribus.net
>>> http://forums.scribus.net
>>>
>>
>>
> 
> ___
> Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Edit your options or unsubscribe:
> http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus
> See also:
> http://wiki.scribus.net
> http://forums.scribus.net
> 

-- 
ZASKE Martin
responsable GʊGʊ
BP 50 - Bassila - Bénin
tel GʊGʊ 66.66.11.11
tel pers 97.44.62.95