[Outdated] Scribus-ng Portable 1.4.0RC6 Development Test 3

Man, you are fast! Thanks, I’ll commence testing with this one.

Btw, the Ghostscript link above leads to an error message:

»The "/ghostscriptforscribusportable/Ghostscript_for_Scribus_Portable__Test_9.00_English_Dev_Test_1.paf.exe" file could not be found or is not available. Please select another file.«

Which of the three Ghostscript versions on your SF page should be used with 1.3.9 DT3?

Ghostscript_for_Scribus_Portable_Test_9.00_English_Dev_Test_1.paf.exe
Ghostscript_for_Scribus_Portable_9.00_English_Dev_Test_2.paf.exe
Ghostscript_for_Scribus_Portable_9.00_English.paf.exe

I cleaned out the old Scribus 1.3.9 folder on my portable drive and did a fresh install, using:

ScribusPortableTest_1.3.9_Development_Test_3.paf.exe
Ghostscript_for_Scribus_Portable_9.00_English_Dev_Test_2.paf.exe

Ghostscript put itself into the

PortableApps\ScribusPortable\App\Ghostscript

folder, but I moved it into

PortableApps\ScribusPortableTest\App\Ghostscript

Unfortunately, it still shows the same behaviour as Scribus 1.3.9 DT2 — the splash screen appears, then nothing. Again, no process containing »Scribus« in its name.

Still working on a German-language Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 and all updates up to — and including — today. (ScribusPortable 1.3.3.14 works okay.)

Anything else I can do to help this moving on?

I don't see this anywhere on the Scribus site. What does the NG designate?
I know that Linux often historically liked to use cryptic names with abbreviations for their software, but I always thought that was an affectation.

I just installed Dev Test 4 and I'm getting the following error messages on startup:

To use XML features of the Launcher you must set [Activate]:XML=true and then regenerate the launcher. Continuing, but [FileWrite1] will not be used.

When I click on "OK" it then repeats for [FileWrite2], [FileWrite3], and [FileWrite4]. After that the program seems to load and run normally, but I didn't really stress test it or anything.

I also noticed something else and I'm not sure if its related or not. I installed the Portable GhostScript 9 along with Scribus, but in "File -> Preferences -> External Programs" it was set by default to use the GhostScript on my local C: drive, not the portable one I had just installed.

I'm running XP Pro SP3 with admin rights.

Hi, Just downloaded and installed the Development Test 5 together with Ghostscript after reading that the problems from version 4 would be gone (the XML error-thing)

But all I get when I try to run the app is the Portable Apps "splash screen" that quickly pops up and then disappears...
- Nothing more.

I checked with DTask Manager open and what I get is something called _sp coming and going in the list of running applications.

I can't give you any specifics about the cumputer more than that it's Windows XP without Administrative rights (am at work).

Anything else I can check and in that case "how"?
(not having administrative rights that is)

Tested on XP SP3 with admin rights, runs fine. No files left behind. I didn't do a regshot, sorry.

I did have a question regarding Ghostscript though. Would there be a possibility to detect existing Ghostscript installations and use those if found? Or is that just complicating matters? I have Ghostscript installed on my computer as part of PDFCreator.

I didn't try to do a print preview but I did get a message about Ghostscript not being found so I assumed it just wouldn't work. Maybe I'll try it anyway (assuming the option is available) and see what happens.

Thanks for your work on this.

FYI 1.4.0 is close, available as RC1 from:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/scribus/files/scribus-devel/1.4.0.rc1/

You should probably focus on 1.4.0

Sorry but while 1.3.9 is working on my home pc (XP) it does not on my work pc, any other portable apps does work. The scribus-ngportable.exe process starts but quickly terminates on work pc (XP as well).

Back on home pc it works again.

Thanks, will install it at home, and run this installation at work as well monday, and report back.

If it does work at work, I will try with a clean install to see if will run at all on my work machine.

I tried 1.4.0RC1 on Windows XP SP3 and it failed to work. Like others, I get the splash screen and then nothing. Curiously, the Scribus executable and the portable launcher are still listed in the task manager.

I'm wondering if this has to do with a conflict with PDFCreator (a PDF printer) which installs Ghostscript. I tried installing the latest version of PDFCreator including an updated version of Ghostscript but to no avail. I also have GhostScript Portable in the CommonFiles folder in my PortableApps directory.

I think the previous NG development version was working for me (prior to 1.4.0), but I have to admit I've kind of lost track of all the different versions of Scribus. Thus, it's possible I'm just confused. Although I believe I posted earlier in this thread about not having any problems, so whatever version was here before worked.

Good news. Worked flawlessly on my computer at work. I will test it a little more tomorrow, but it seems to be fine.

I've dl'd it and am currently putting it thru its paces. What steps are necessary to finally get this to official? Are we waiting for Scribus to make a stable release of 1.4.0?