Author Topic: Document windows not visible!  (Read 469 times)

shannonb

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Document windows not visible!
« on: April 17, 2012, 08:14:21 pm »
Hello all,

I have been an occasional user of Scribus for OSX for a couple of years and an odd problem has just arisen.

When I open a document, I can't see it. Its window is simply not visible at all. I can call up and see all of the other properties and formatting windows, but whether I open a new or existing document, the document is nowhere to be seen. I'm even asked if I want to save changes on exit, without ever having seen the document.

I upgraded to Scribus 1.4.0 last night, to no avail. Currently running Snow Leopard, 10.6.8.

Reading about issues on this and other forums, there was some mention of the
users>[username]>library>preferences>Scribus folder, and I can't find that either.

Please help - I have documents that I need to access and update!

Thanks,

Shannon

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Re: Document windows not visible!
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2012, 09:52:33 pm »
hi shannon

you're right, usually this problem lies in a wrong definition for the position of the main window.

you can change this definition with a text editor in the file: /Users/'your name'/Library/Preferences/Scribus/scribus140.rc.
search for a line beginning with: <MAINWINDOW
and set the position entries to: YPOS="22" XPOS="10"

save the file and launch scribus – now the window should be visible…

utnik

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Re: Document windows not visible!
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2012, 03:47:50 am »
It worked! The line looked like this:
 <MAINWINDOW WIDTH="1218" MAXIMIZED="0" HEIGHT="800" YPOS="226" XPOS="1280"/>
and I changed it as you instructed.

Thanks so much!

Shannon