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#21
MacOS / Re: Spinning "Wait" pinwheel
Last post by DanMacKay - December 09, 2023, 03:40:17 AM
Quote from: PatJr on December 09, 2023, 12:21:01 AMI don't have a mac, on linux from a terminal

$ scribus

if you're using a flatpak

$ flatpak run net.scribus.Scribus


if you can run the AppImage, from the directory where the AppImage is
$ ./scribus-1.5.8-linux-x86_64.AppImage



I'm very sorry -- I meant to post this to the MacOS forum.
#22
MacOS / Re: Spinning "Wait" pinwheel
Last post by PatJr - December 09, 2023, 12:21:01 AM
I don't have a mac, on linux from a terminal

$ scribus

if you're using a flatpak

$ flatpak run net.scribus.Scribus


if you can run the AppImage, from the directory where the AppImage is
$ ./scribus-1.5.8-linux-x86_64.AppImage

#23
MacOS / Re: Spinning "Wait" pinwheel
Last post by DanMacKay - December 08, 2023, 05:12:22 PM
Quote from: PatJr on December 08, 2023, 03:45:00 PMdunno, can you open a terminal and start scribus from there, some times you get more information output to the terminal to help figure out what's going on

I don't know how to start Scribus from the Command line - can you help?
#24
MacOS / Re: Spinning "Wait" pinwheel
Last post by PatJr - December 08, 2023, 03:45:00 PM
dunno, can you open a terminal and start scribus from there, some times you get more information output to the terminal to help figure out what's going on
#25
MacOS / Spinning "Wait" pinwheel
Last post by DanMacKay - December 08, 2023, 02:54:14 PM
I recently upgraded my M1 MacBook Pro to MacOs 14 - now on 14.1.1.

I *think* since the upgrade to 14, Scribus 1.5.8 displays the spinning "Wait" pinwheel forever for some documents.  I have to Force Quit Scribus; Force Quit says, "not responding."

I have a hunch, but no evidence, that this is related to my Mac storing images on the Cloud and Scribus is waiting to retrieve them.

1) Do you have any suggestion about how to diagnose it further?
2) Have you had this? What did you do to fix it?
#26
General Discussion / Re: Nowhere to complain? Menti...
Last post by a.l.e - December 08, 2023, 01:26:16 PM
I had a few ideas...

Here is a collaborative pad:

https://hedgedoc.dev/n/a6c009hmn5cgyach91nh5y5fpc

Read it, comment it in here, or create a hedgedoc account and help writing this document.

I've also created a git repository to store a copy of the live document (in case it gets deleted...):

https://github.com/aoloe/scribus-manual-evaluating/
#27
General Discussion / Re: Nowhere to complain? Menti...
Last post by a.l.e - December 08, 2023, 08:41:01 AM
hi abrogard

mrb is right: you probably don't need scribus for your submissions to your online school (except if you're doing arts school...)
you should look for a better office suite, not a DTP tool (of course, if you already know DTP you can replace writer with scribus and, for some parts of the job, get a better result... but it's like using excel for vector drawing: you can do that, don't have to : -)



but, personally, i consider the first part of your post (before you start taking about your notes taking) very interesting and shows a few things that are missing in the scribus documentation.
does anybody around here want to collaborate on a document that could have helped abrogard to get started with scribus (or understand that scribus is not the right tool for the specific task)?
#28
General Discussion / Re: Nowhere to complain? Menti...
Last post by MrB - December 07, 2023, 10:29:40 PM
It does not sound like you're doing desktop publishing. Scribus can and will continue to improve but the things you are saying are not related to Scribus but the choice of tool. Other DTP apps won't be any different really.

This forum and bugs.scribus.net in particular are your avenues for requesting changes and submitting bugs or feature requests.
#29
General Discussion / Re: Nowhere to complain? Menti...
Last post by PatJr - December 07, 2023, 03:17:35 PM
can't say I follow your post...
for quick notes I use Zim wiki
https://www.zim-wiki.org/downloads.html

It says it has a Windows version but I'm not sure if it works, I use fedora and just install it from the repo. If you can use flatpaks on Windows there is also a flatpak version
https://flathub.org/apps/org.zim_wiki.Zim

for Scibus form replies, try using the "REPLY" button and not the QUICK REPLY it has more features and you can attach pictures to the post
#30
General Discussion / Re: Nowhere to complain? Menti...
Last post by RodneyLee - December 07, 2023, 01:39:30 PM
try some of the tutorials and use the latest version 1.5.8 or later