Craig Bradney wrote: >On Tuesday 07 June 2005 20:01, Sebastian Roeder wrote: > > >>My questions are which ghostscript-* version is best for Scribus (and >>what the hell is the difference between the gnu one and the others) and >>maybe what I can do to get my printer to work + best Scribus results. As >>a sidenote, the printer is PCL aware (Brother HL5140 laserprinter). >> >> >>
>>I have only just seen ghostscript-gnu today and I would suggest you give it a >>try and see if it includes the capability you need. I do read however in my >>submitted bugs in Gentoo's tracker that AFPL 8.51+ will be coming to Gentoo >>pretty soon. >> >>Craig >> >> As I am beginning to understand these various posts about ghostscript, it would seem that recommendations depend on what it is you want to do with an "advanced" ghostscript. Versions 8+ will give you improved display, but will only improve printing if you have the driver(s). For converting to PDF and printing from that output, it would seem (as I understand the various comments) not to make any difference. So, for me personally, using Fedora Core 3, I don't see the imperative to upgrade beyond 7.07 -- I am not going to see the benefit. So it would seem that maybe there should be either a caveat or a frank warning about upgrading ghostscript.(?) For most, it may make most sense to ride the upgrades with your distro. Greg
