Installing Scribus 1.3.4.x or lower from CVS sources on Mac OS X/Aqua
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Introduction
Thanks to Andreas Vox and Craig Ringer, recent Scribus compiles straight from CVS on Mac/Aqua. Andreas Vox plans to organize a preview binary bundle which can be simply dropped into the system. If some daring alpha testers use it and report all errors to the developers, we might have a fully functional Aqua version when 1.3.0 final comes out. :-)
Scribus 1.3.0cvs is not for production use. The current build on Mac/Aqua has some problems of its own:
- not all fonts are accessible
- dialogs behave strangely (no close button, menu disappears, ...)
- Aqua buttons need more space than X11 ones, that causes layout problems, notably with the page selector.
- colors are wrong for images in page preview
- it's not really tested, so there may be much more
Installation
What to do
Only one tiny patch is needed in pluginmanager.cpp l. 351:
-return "so"; +return "la";
Then:
0. Install Qt/Mac (not the X version!) 1. make -f Makefile.cvs 2. CPPFLAGS=-I/sw/lib LDFLAGS=-L/sw/lib export CPPFLAGS LDFLAGS 3. ./configure --enable-mac --enable-debug ---prefix=/usr/local \ --with-extra-libs=/sw/lib --with-extra-includes=/sw/include \ --with-pythondir=/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/ ** --enable-debug is mandatory since ld chokes on '-s' when linking modules ** either CPP/LDFLAGS or --extra-include/libs might be superflous but I didn't try that 4. make 5. sudo make install 6. unpack the Scribus.app skeleton 7. copy scribus/scribus to Scribus.app/Contents/MacOS/ 8. open Scribus.app :-)
Some caveats
- some dialogs don't have a close button, ESC usually works though
- Preview shows wrong colors for images
- some fonts might not work
- <fill in yourself>
See also:
- Installing Scribus on Mac OS_X - Howto on installing Scribus (Fink/X11)
- MacOSX version of Scribus - Ongoing discussion on bringing a native version of Scribus to Mac (hot!)