[scribus] "Blank" document <- user needs help

[Richard Foley]

Hi Mika,

I only offered my suggestion as a possible thing to look at, sorry not to have
been more help, but I'm not a Scribus developer, so it was a bit of a stab in
the dark for me.

However, I can say that I've used Scribus to produce 2 full colour books of
over 200 pages, (with a photo on nearly every page), and I've been soundly
impressed at the overall quality and robustness of the code. There are issues,
and it's not InDesign because it's produced with volunteer work instead of
millions of dollars. But when it works, it usually works very well.

Maybe file a bug report, or look/post on the scribus-dev list?

(instead of the scribus-user list)

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Ciao

Richard Foley

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On Fri, May 02, 2014 at 03:03:51PM +0300, Mika Aleksandroff wrote:
> Really?!?  No-one (else) has any suggestion on how to fix this? Or debug this?
> 
> I tried 1.4.4 on windows but the document appears blank there as well.
> 1.4.5-trunk seems to be the only version that does open the document
> correctly but is otherwise unusably slow, I can't wait 5-10 seconds
> after each click of a mouse for something to happen.
> 
> Any help is higly appreciated, I even promise not to bother anyone
> about Scribus in the future.. Right now I'm seriously considering
> re-doing everything with InDesign.
> 
> 
> .mika
> 
> 
> 
> On 26 April 2014 17:33, Mika Aleksandroff <mika.aleksandroff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Joop,
> >
> >> Have you accidentally switched the "visible" column on/off for the "layers"?
> >>
> >> Just an idea/suggestion to check.
> >>
> >> Richard Foley
> >
> > Nope, I haven't.
> >
> > I took a couple of snapshots to better understand what I am talking about:
> > https://plus.google.com/photos/111211318645563638567/albums/6006606164807071121
> >
> > This is clearly some sort of bug, but I don't really care about that
> > now, since this is something I have to finish in vey near future as a
> > deadline is approaching. I need to resolve this somehow.
> >
> > I tried installing scribus-trunk and the files open just fine with it
> > but for some reason that is really really slow on my machine.
> > Selecting an object takes 3 seconds and so on. So not very usable.
> >
> > To re-iterate what has happened:
> >
> > 0. I am using Scribus 1.4. on Linux Mint. (Scribus Version 1.4.3, 20
> > July 2013, Build ID: C-C-T-F-C1.12.14, Using Ghostscript version 9.07)
> > 1. I have multiple ~20 page documents with 1000+ objects (text,
> > polygons) on all of them
> > 2. I went thru every document (preflight check) and fixed all problems
> > and exported all to PDFs and closed them
> > 3. Now two of the documents appear completely blank when I open them.
> > 4. I can't add new objects, either. They are invisible. I can create a
> > polygon but it stays invisible no matter what.
> > 5. I can open the documents on scribus-trunk but that works so slowly
> > that it is unusable.
> >
> >
> > .mika
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 23 April 2014 17:19, Mika Aleksandroff <mika.aleksandroff at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Joop,
> >>
> >> sorry if this has come up before, links to "asked questions" lead to
> >> non-existent page and mailing list archive is not searchable,so..
> >>
> >> I've been creating a publication using Scribus 1.4.3 (on linux mint)
> >> and while there are bugs and quirks it's been working ok. Until now I
> >> encountered a major problem: when I open the document it opens up just
> >> fine but all the pages seem to be empty. Except they are not, when are
> >> click around my objects are there, they are just not visible anymore.
> >> I have four separate files, each consisting about 20 pages and two of
> >> them are experiencing the same problem. The other two work just fine.
> >>
> >> Any suggestions what I can do?? Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >> .mika
> >>
> >> --
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> >> Don't feel bad; it's not you, it's me. I don't like you.      - CB as AS -
> >
> >
> >
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