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On the Scribus mailing list, Andreas Vox has started an interesting discussion on bringing Scribus natively to Mac OSX. It turns out that Martin Costabel has also been working on this with his fink packages for Qt/Mac Scribus. Craig Ringer is also working on porting, and pushing changes into 1.3cvs as they're made suitable for inclusion.
=Native version of Scribus for Mac OSX=
==Status in short==
* Scribus on MacOSX is still work in progress, but there are very usable, frequently updated binary test builds
* [http://aqua.scribus.net aqua.scribus.net] is the place go, when you want to know more details and download the latest packages
* [http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=2015 List of all known issues] — check this list before reporting new errors


== Status ==
==See also==
 
=== Status of Scribus 1.3cvs vanilla CVS (unpatched): ===
 
* Working
** Building against Qt/Mac
*** You may need to edit <code>libqt-mt.la</code> and remove the <code>-framework blah</code> entries if libtool chokes with a weird error while linking the final Scribus executable.
** Plugins
** fontconfig ('''required''' for useful operation on MacOS/X)
*** May require <code>export LDFLAGS=" -lfreetype -lexpat "</code> and/or <code>--with-extra-includes</code> to work.
** finding the bundle path and resources dynamically at runtime if built with <code>--enable-bundle</code>
** static path build works fine too
** CUPS (with fink <code>cups-devel</code> package or add-in CUPS headers; Apple doesn't ship the headers in 10.3)?
** Operation from a .app bundle . The bundle must be hand constructed, and library paths on the executable need manual fixing, so it's only halfway there. Still, it works.
** Support for Mac fonts, including old-style resource-fork fonts. Thanks, Andreas!
* Not working
** Automatic assembly of a working .app bundle. Andreas has scripts to do this now, though.
 
Please check out [http://aqua.scribus.net/ aqua.scribus.net] for more details, and binary builds to try out. Please use the debug builds and report errors!
 
== Related mailing list discussion (mostly old) ==
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009442.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009443.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009444.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009447.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009448.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009452.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009460.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009478.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009466.html
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009480.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009482.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009483.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009484.html
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009485.html
 
=== Success: compile Mac/Aqua from CVS without patches ===
 
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009766.html
 
Note that the above is a bit old - things have changed quite a bit since then.
 
'''See also:'''
* [[Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X]] - Howto on installing Scribus from CVS sources through Fink
* [[Installing Scribus from CVS sources on Mac OS X]] - Howto on installing Scribus from CVS sources through Fink
* [[Installing Scribus on Mac OS_X]] - Howto on installing the stable version of Scribus through Fink
* [[Installing Scribus on Mac OS_X]] - Howto on installing the stable version of Scribus through Fink

Revision as of 22:47, 13 October 2005

Native version of Scribus for Mac OSX

Status in short

  • Scribus on MacOSX is still work in progress, but there are very usable, frequently updated binary test builds
  • aqua.scribus.net is the place go, when you want to know more details and download the latest packages
  • List of all known issues — check this list before reporting new errors

See also