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CeltX
May 15, 2009 19:58:51 GMT
Post by completelyhatstand on May 15, 2009 19:58:51 GMT
Hi guys, I'm back at the machine! I'm running the latest Ubuntu, I have just downloaded and extracted celt X, but there is no instruction on how to run it. No launcher, and clicking icons in the folder does not work.
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CeltX
May 15, 2009 21:14:26 GMT
Post by mikkh on May 15, 2009 21:14:26 GMT
I just downloaded it (in Vector) extracted and ran it easily enough by clicking 'celtx' in the extracted folder.
I imagine it's some kind of permission error - assuming you tried clicking the 'celtx' icon that is?
Right click the 'celtx' file and make sure execute is ticked in the permissions tab
But before you do that, it's a pretty rough and ready project with very little polish and not exactly easy or friendly to use either. It looks to me to be a glorified word processor, so it don't expect it to be anything close to an Adobe program
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CeltX
May 15, 2009 22:15:27 GMT
Post by completelyhatstand on May 15, 2009 22:15:27 GMT
Celtx is a scriptwriting program I've been told I should have a look at. The nearest to it costs £120, or is it £160, I was told its much better than the BBC's free offering. Although the guy does have a chip on his shoulder as far as the BBC's concerned. Anyway, I digress.
Thanks mikkh
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CeltX
May 15, 2009 23:49:16 GMT
Post by mikkh on May 15, 2009 23:49:16 GMT
Maybe I was a bit hasty in condemning it, first impressions weren't good though with the get add-ons button returning an unknown site. It looks like this with one of the examples loaded......
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CeltX
May 16, 2009 13:41:24 GMT
Post by elvisuk on May 16, 2009 13:41:24 GMT
No i cannot get it it install from the zip or rar, I'm using Linux Mint
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CeltX
May 28, 2009 9:46:12 GMT
Post by completelyhatstand on May 28, 2009 9:46:12 GMT
I'm now using Celtx on Mint 7 and have no issues so far, not even Greg from Celtx itself could fathom the problem, they use Ubuntu as the build platform apparently, but he problem has gone now, and so has Ubuntu.
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CeltX
May 28, 2009 11:39:25 GMT
Post by mikkh on May 28, 2009 11:39:25 GMT
Yes it's strange how a base platform (especially Ubuntu) can have problems, but something based on it is fine.
Mint is better than it's parent Ubuntu (and everything built on the real base of Debian seems to improve on that too) PClinuxOS is way ahead of it's base of Mandriva Vector is miles better than Slackware IMO Sabayon is much improved over Gentoo
Etc, etc ad nauseum
Mint is also moving away from blindly accepting every Ubuntu upgrade by using their own, which will make it more of a Debian offshoot than an Ubuntu one - and good news for everyone
(karma added for seeing the light!)
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CeltX
May 30, 2009 12:49:21 GMT
Post by elvisuk on May 30, 2009 12:49:21 GMT
Thanks Mikkh and completelyhatstand ;D
I shall have to give celt X another go when i get round to puting Mint 7 on and see what happens ;D
Is their one that dose books anybody?
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CeltX
May 30, 2009 23:21:32 GMT
Post by completelyhatstand on May 30, 2009 23:21:32 GMT
For long pieces of prose as in books its better to use a very simple text editor, it gives you far more freedom and space to create.
I use "text editor" or "Wordpad" depending on where I am to write all my work. We only use Script writing software in the final drafting to get the work up to industry spec.
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CeltX
May 31, 2009 2:11:55 GMT
Post by elvisuk on May 31, 2009 2:11:55 GMT
OK thanks completelyhatstand ;D
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