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peronastudio

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Jun 29, 2009
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Hi, I am new to Mac's and I'm looking for a desktop pub. program thats
free and will do some decent work helping me design wedding stationery. I'm pulling my hair out. I found Scribus...Looked cool, but I cant figure out how to run it once it's downloaded. Tells me to choose the application to run off of and I have no idea. Any takers? I'm desperate.
Kel
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peronastudio said:
Hi, I am new to Mac's and I'm looking for a desktop pub. program thats
free and will do some decent work helping me design wedding stationery. I'm pulling my hair out. I found Scribus...Looked cool, but I cant figure out how to run it once it's downloaded. Tells me to choose the application to run off of and I have no idea. Any takers? I'm desperate.
Kel
:eek:
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Scribus is the only one I know that will even do the job. Did you download the Aqua version? Also, that program relies on ghostscript, so you are going to need to look through Google because I don't think there is a binary (PKG or MPKG file on the Mac platform) for it. OpenOffice should have that functionality but it is a poor replacement to Scribus and commerical programs like Adobe InDesign.

BlueRevolution said:
You need to install X11 from your system restore disks before you can use that application.
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No, you don't need X11, because there has been an Aqua version of it for awhile.
 
BlueRevolution said:
When I downloaded the OS X version of the application it informed me that it would start as soon as X11 had finished launching. I assume that means X11 is required.
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It depends on what you downloaded, but I have successfully found the version that runs natively on a Mac, so if you find the Aqua version, you will not need X11. Try searching for "Scribus Aqua".
 
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