Thank you Andreas for your reply but I am too inexperienced to make much sense of it. You contradict the recommendations on the Scribus website and in the Scribus Manual and you write about things I know nothing about.
Apparently there's been no readily installable Ghostscript for Scribus (on Mac) since the 2007 version 8.57 and no need for the subsequent five releases. I am just learning about Scribus and the contradiction is confusing. I'm sending a copy of my original email and the gist of what I said above to the Scribus Team at the website asking them to clear up this contradiction. On Jun 1, 2009, at 1:34 PM, avox wrote: > > > > arthamax wrote: >> >> I am a computer novice and would very much appreciate it if someone >> could give me step by step commands to upgrade to Ghostscript 8.64 >> and also tell me what to do with Ghostpdl 1.54. or where I can go to >> get these explicit commands. I don't have enough experience to >> understand explanations and descriptions. Either there is a command >> path procedure for Mac users to upgrade to Ghostscript 8.64 or their >> isn't. >> > Ghostscript 8.57 should work well enough with Scribus, I'm not sure > if it's > worth the hassle to upgrade to 8.64. > > GhostPdl is not needed by Scribus; you can ignore it. > > > >> Or I can delete Scribus and start all over if someone can give me the >> explicit commands to install Ghostscript 8.64 directly from my >> desktop into "Macintosh HD" so that when I download Scribus again it >> can find it and incorporate it the way it did with the earlier >> installed Ghostscript 8.57. Can I just drop the Ghostscript 8.64 >> folder on the Macintosh HD icon? >> > > That will probbaly not work. First of all, you can upgrade Ghostscript > without reinstalling Scribus. > Second question is, where do you get your Ghostscript 8.64 binary? > Ghostscript can be configured in different ways which are not always > compatible with Scribus. Scribus expects an executable 'gs' or > 'gsc' with > the devices 'tiffsep', 'pngalpha', 'bitcmyk', 'pdfwrite', 'pswrite' > and > 'ps2write' > compiled in. So in order to use a binary Ghostscript, you'd have to > figure > out > a) where that binary gets installed. > b) check in Terminal.app with "gs -h" or "gsc -h" if it lists the > necessary > drivers. > c) specify the path to the executale in Scribus preferences. > > As I said before, that's probably not worth the hassle if you have > a working > GS 8.57. > > /Andreas > -- > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Re%3A-Ghost- > Script--tp23820910p23821627.html > Sent from the Scribus New mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
