MacOSX version of Scribus

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On the Scribus mailing list, Andreas Vox have started an interesting discussion on bringing Scribus natively to Mac OSX. Join in with your opinion!


http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2005-March/009442.html

I noticed that you still require X11 for the MacOSX version of Scribus.

I managed to compile Scribus 1.2.1 with Qt/Mac native and I wondered if you'd like to get some hints how it is done. In fact it was quite easy once I solved my libtool problems (screenshot attached :-) )

So this is what I did:

0. Started with the Scribus 1.2.1 sources

1. configured Scribus to use Qt/Mac inbstead of the fink Qt version

2. replaced all gdk-* sourcefiles with empty files

3. commented out all #include <X11.h> etc.

4. Removed GC from scpainter

5. Rewrote scpainter::end():

void ScPainter::end()
{
        QImage qimg(m_width, m_height, 32, QImage::BigEndian);
        QRgb * bits = (QRgb *) qimg.bits();
        int words = qimg.numBytes() / 4;
        art_u8 * p = m_buffer;;
        for (int i=0; i < words; ++i) {
                art_u8 r = *p++;
               art_u8 g = *p++;
               art_u8 b = *p++;
               art_u8 a = *p++;
               *bits++ = qRgba(r,g,b,a);
        }
        bitBlt(m_target, 0, 0, &qimg);
}


6. libtool nuisances:

6a) Apply fink patch to use correct -bundle for libtool

6b) Remove -s option (stripping is no good idea if you want to link plugins)

7. Make Scribus ignore any "-psn_*" commandline options passed by Qt

8. Adjust a few #includes to MacOSX

9. Created a rudimentary Scribus.app/ bundle (thanks to Ronald Florence who did the same for LyX so I just had to replace a few strings)

The application still uses the files (plugins etc.) which Scribus installs to /usr/local. The following libraries get linked:

/Applications/local/Scribus.app/Contents/MacOS/scribus:
/sw/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib (compatibility version 63.0.0, current version 63.0.0)
/sw/lib/libart_lgpl_2.2.dylib (compatibility version 6.0.0, current version 6.16.0)
/usr/local/lib/libfreetype6.dylib (compatibility version 6.2.0, current version 6.3.4)
/usr/lib/libcups.2.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.5.0)
/usr/lib/libssl.0.9.7.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.7, current version 0.9.7)
/usr/lib/libcrypto.0.9.7.dylib (compatibility version 0.9.7, current version 0.9.7)
/sw/lib/liblcms.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.12.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 71.1.1)
/sw/lib/libtiff.3.dylib (compatibility version 3.6.0, current version 3.6.1)
libqt-mt.3.dylib (compatibility version 3.3.0, current version 3.3.3)
/sw/lib/libpng.3.dylib (compatibility version 3.0.0, current version 3.0.0)
/usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

I still have problems with some plugins and some icons don't show, but otherwise it's usable. Anyone who want's to test and help finishing it to a proper MacOSX application?

Regards Andreas

Ah, yes, the screenshot:

scribus-screen-shot-small-0001.jpg