<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 30 April 2011 06:12, Mike Sleger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:chappa-ai@q.com">chappa-ai@q.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hello, I've been using Scribus for over a year now on a Windows XP system and currently in the transition to a new MacBook Pro (i7 Intel quad-core). I'm not too impressed with Apple's attempt at DTP through Pages and don't have the money for Quark or InDesign. I'd like to keep using Scribus (I like its features and price). I've read mixed reviews about its ability to install and run on OS X and I haven't seen much information about it at the Scribus site. So, some questions for anybody who's been using the OS X version of Scribus on a MacBook:<br>
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How complicated is the installation?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Depends. If you install the .dmg from scribus: Download, unpack, copy to Apllications, run.</div><div><br></div><div>I tried installing scribus with fink and it didn't work. That is fink didn't work and I didn't like it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I ended up installing scribus usimf homebrew (<a href="http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/">http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/</a>). After you have installed homeprew you need manually download the installation file for scribus (<a href="http://www.schafproductions.com/assets/scribus.rb">http://www.schafproductions.com/assets/scribus.rb</a>) und copy it to /usr/local/Library/Formula/. After that it you can install scribus by running brew install scribus. That is, if I haven't forgotten something. If something goes wrong just write me.</div>
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What is Aqua?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aqua_(user_interface)</a></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
How "stable" is the current release?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I run scribus-1.4rc2 and never had any Problems.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
How fast does it run? (It absolutely crawls on my Windows system with 4 GB RAM)<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No Problems on a Mac Book Air 13'' with 4Gb RAM.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Can files created in the Windows version be opened in the OS X version? What are the equivalent versions between the two platforms?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That should work. At least Linux Files work on Mac. 1.4 on Mac is 1.4 on Windows.</div>
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