Around June 18, 2006, I started using BORDERS in PageStream. The borders in
the old files still print from 5.0.4.31 Pro. Since about March 25, 2007, no
newly created file will print the BORDERS, though it displays fine.

I do not know if it is pertinent to the problem, but when I ltrace
PageStream5pro from a shell, I in part get this message:
....
InitScripting #3 i:3 libname:libpython2.5.so
InitScripting #3 open!
InitScripting #4 getpythonfuncs ok!
Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
<... SL_AppInitA resumed> ) = 0x82c2ee4
......

I'm sure a more knowledgeable person would instantly know what is called for
here. I have no clue as to where the variable $PYTHONHOME should be located,
nor the content of <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]. I would guess <prefix> to be a
location, but what do I look for?
I am using an Athlon64 and OpenSuse 11.0 x86-64 (at least for a few more
weeks) with an HP3800dn PostScript 3 printer.

Is there any way to get BORDERS to work again when pinting? It still displays
fine. From what I remember, you may have even added some more great BORDERS!

Side note: I rarely use FX, and 5.0.4.28pro created one with a large font
size for Thanksgiving that 5.0.4.3pro crashed making. So there seems to be
improvement!

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Hi Gary,

I don't understand why borders would stop printing for you if you didn't
change your PageStream version (march 2007 predates the recent
updates!). Python should have no bearing on the matter. My understanding
from the error you gave is that python didn't load/initialize itself
fully and that certain functions won't work in a python script called
from within PageStream. Unless you use something from the Script menu
you should never know the difference.

Deron

> Around June 18, 2006, I started using BORDERS in PageStream. The borders in
> the old files still print from 5.0.4.31 Pro. Since about March 25, 2007, no
> newly created file will print the BORDERS, though it displays fine.
>
> I do not know if it is pertinent to the problem, but when I ltrace
> PageStream5pro from a shell, I in part get this message:
> ....
> InitScripting #3 i:3 libname:libpython2.5.so
> InitScripting #3 open!
> InitScripting #4 getpythonfuncs ok!
> Could not find platform independent libraries <prefix>
> Consider setting $PYTHONHOME to <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]
> 'import site' failed; use -v for traceback
> <... SL_AppInitA resumed> ) = 0x82c2ee4
> ......
>
> I'm sure a more knowledgeable person would instantly know what is called for
> here. I have no clue as to where the variable $PYTHONHOME should be located,
> nor the content of <prefix>[:<exec_prefix>]. I would guess <prefix> to be a
> location, but what do I look for?
> I am using an Athlon64 and OpenSuse 11.0 x86-64 (at least for a few more
> weeks) with an HP3800dn PostScript 3 printer.
>
> Is there any way to get BORDERS to work again when pinting? It still displays
> fine. From what I remember, you may have even added some more great BORDERS!
>
> Side note: I rarely use FX, and 5.0.4.28pro created one with a large font
> size for Thanksgiving that 5.0.4.3pro crashed making. So there seems to be
> improvement!
>
>
>

--
Deron Kazmaier - support@pagestream.org
Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.pagestream.org
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows

On Sunday 07 December 2008 11:43:07 am PageStream Support wrote:
> I don't understand why borders would stop printing for you if you didn't
> change your PageStream version (march 2007 predates the recent
> updates!)
Actually, that is the point. Some versions ago, BORDERS creation became
broken on my machine. With OpenSuse 10.2 or 10.3, if I remember correctly, I
had to pull in about 30 libraries to make PageStream run. Gimp had gone
64-bit. So it might actually NOT be a PageStream problem. I just don't know
how else to check, yet. Maybe I''ll have to spend some time in enormous
PostScript files!
I thought you had mentioned several years ago a way to identify the file
creation version of PageStream, but I have been unable to find it.

> . Python should have no bearing on the matter. My understanding
> from the error you gave is that python didn't load/initialize itself
> fully and that certain functions won't work in a python script called
> from within PageStream.
Well, that might explain why the short list of scripts, like "redraw window"
(I don't remember the others) has completely disappeared. Mostly I just move
a slider to get a redraw, though I had saved a script (gone now) to reduce a
5 megapixel picture to about 4x6 and align to a visible area, not a foot or
so from center. I regularly format my camera pictures in PageStream to print
them, with thin cut lines. It just makes cutting, labeling, and sizing so
handy and savable.

Thanks for your powerful program!

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>> . Python should have no bearing on the matter. My understanding
>> from the error you gave is that python didn't load/initialize itself
>> fully and that certain functions won't work in a python script called
>> from within PageStream.
>>
> Well, that might explain why the short list of scripts, like "redraw window"
> (I don't remember the others) has completely disappeared.

No, that would be a missing PageStream5 scripts file. Using the scripts
palette you can Append the scripts file from a previous release and then
Save it to make it your default (not Save As).

Deron

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Grasshopper LLC Publishing -http://www.pagestream.org
PageStream DTP for Amiga, Linux, Macintosh, and Windows

On Saturday 06 December 2008 04:47:28 pm Gary Lee Smith wrote:
> Around June 18, 2006, I started using BORDERS in PageStream.  The borders
> in the old files still print from 5.0.4.31 Pro.  Since about March 25,
> 2007, no newly created file will print the BORDERS, though it displays
> fine.
It was several years ago, but I think I created the BORDER starting with a
line box, then imposing the Border onto it. The Help instructions do not
start with a line box. So I remade the Border only using the Border Tool.
It printed!
To change the color requires FX and the Box still only prints a quarter inch
of the selections, like a long time ago. However, the ">>" selector DOES
work, unlike most font and color selectors brought up by ">>" in 5.0.4.29pro
and 5.0.4.31pro.

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 the Fear of the Lord. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is
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