Hi, Thanks Greg,
Everything is fine now. It is the Fedora default Ghostscript 7.07 that was probably causing this problem. I think I don't have file a bug on Scribus. Once I installed all the rpms you have put at http://www.ucolick.org/~novak/scribus, it still didn't work. I had to create a link in /usr/lib/ for libpstoedit.so which is at /usr/local/lib/, then everything works splendidly! Thanks Greg and everybody for the effort! No wonder Scribus is such a success! Suki On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:47 -0700, Greg Novak wrote: > Suki Venkat, [TnQ] writes: > > I wanted to import some LaTeX equations into Scribus. > > I did "dvips -E file.dvi" to get the EPSF file. > > The EPSF file doesn't look nice either in Scribus or PDF. > > I suppose like a LaTeX stuff it may print okay! > > I would like to try to use "pstoedit", to make it into SVG and import > > into Scribus. Unfortunately, while trying to install "pstoedit", I get > > one of those infinite loop of dependency problems. I tried "yum > > install", "up2date" on my Fedora Core 3 without success. > > The site www.pstoedit.net doesn't give source files, so I don't know > > what to do. I have gsview, Inkscape installed, but without "pstoedit". > > Please help! > > I've been fighting with similar things and here's what I've learned. > 1) As already noted, for decent output make sure that the graphic > isn't being rasterized at some step. > 2) The version of Ghostview that you have is important. > 3) To get SVG out of pstoedit, you'll also need to install the > Gnu plotutils library. > 4) If you use the computer modern fonts (which, with Latex, you > probably do) you'll likely need do use the -dt command line option in > pstoedit, which makes the text into curves. > > At first, I couldn't get my EPS files to be effectively processed by > Inkscape, Scribus, _or_ pstoedit. Basically, I installed a recent > version of Ghostscript and it solved all of my problems. > > For my own sanity, I made RPM spec files of the software I needed to > get this going. I've put both the binary and source RPMS here: > http://www.ucolick.org/~novak/scribus > > The RPMS are non-standard in that I designed them to install into > /usr/local so that I could maintain both the fedora default > Ghostscript 7.07 and the most recent version of ghostscript, 8.51. > Thus, the ghostscript RPMS have funny names, gsn-ghostscript (GSN are > my initials). You'll also likely need to make sure that > /usr/local/bin is before /usr/bin in your path so that the new gs is > found. > > If you want to do something different, the .spec files should be easy > to edit. Then you should be able to build the RPMS with something > like 'rpmbuild -ba file.spec' ** I caution you ** to do the builds as > a regular user, *not* as root. I blew away /usr/local on my machine > by misunderstanding one of the spec file variables. The spec files > and RPMS work for me, but as always use at your own risk. > > Cheers, > Greg
