[scribus] Getting help files for latest version

[Gregory Pittman]

On 2/9/22 10:03, Craig Bradney wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Easier than that:
> 
> Many years ago I added the ability for the help browser to use files in a user folder rather than the installation directory. I have installed a Fedora virtual machine and checked, they have removed the doc files from the installation as you said Greg.
> 
> You can download one of the source tarballs from sourceforge, eg https://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.5.7/scribus-1.5.7.tar.gz (fedora only has 1.5.7)
> Once extracted you will have something like:
> /home/<username>/Downloads/scribus-1.5.7/doc/
> 
> You should be able to copy the help browser files from the "en" subfolder into a folder similar to this:
> 
> /home/<username>/.local/share/scribus/helpfiles/en
> 
> Open Scribus and you can use the help browser as expected
> 

Hi Craig,

Ah yes! This does work. Somehow using a 'helpfiles' directory makes all the difference.

Greg