[scribus] Getting help files for latest version

[Gregory Pittman]

On 2/9/22 04:50, Owen wrote:
> On 2022-02-09 18:21, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 2/8/22 23:30, Craig Bradney wrote:
>>> The help should be included from what I see athttps://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/scribus. There’s no other Scribus packages for Fedora. Our source files include the help.
>>
>> And how do I get just the help files?  I already have Scribus
>> installed, I don't want to remove it and build it from scratch,
>> especially as that means that I'm not  going to get automatic updates
>> as they become available.
>>
> 
> 
> 
> I don't think you are going to get the Help files separately.
> 
> They were copyrighted but the current copyright provisions allow packaging the doco (at least in the Scribus-170 docs)
> 
> Your best bet is to build Scribus into a home directory and extract the help files from that.
> 

I'm also using Fedora 35, and for a long time they refuse to put the documentation in with Scribus -- some religious exception to its not being free from any copyrights.
I just tried to copy the documentation to /usr/share/scribus/ and still got the message about missing documentation when running Fedora's version of Scribus.

A possible workaround if you're willing to go to the bother:
Set up a localhost if you haven't already -- the first starts httpd, the second makes sure it starts when you boot your computer in future.

	sudo systemctl start httpd.service
	sudo systemctl enable httpd.service

Next, copy the en directory from an intact Scribus download to your localhost:

	sudo cp -r ~/Scribus15x/doc/en /var/www/html/

To access this manual, use your browser and point it to
	localhost/en/menu.xml

The reason this works is that some time ago I put a file scribus-manual.xsl into the doc/en folder, and added a pointer to it in menu.xml

You might wonder why you need to bother with localhost. The reason is that some time ago Firefox stopped allowing access to html files in your computer's user directories.

Greg