On 04/22/2010 04:02 PM, Peter Thorkelson wrote: > hello, george, > > thanks a lot so far. > > I'm on a mac, OSX 10.5.8. > > when I go to preferences (under the scribus menu), I get what looks like > a lot of gibberish, except that three of the fields say "name of > executable." as it happens, executables are not available to the mac, or > at least, so I've been told. they are the exclusive province of windows. > maybe they're available under linux, I wouldn't know. > > the "image processing tool" window contains the word "gimp." as it > happens, I have gimp on my computer. I seem to be able to give scribus > the location of that program, but when I tried to insert ghostwriter in > the postscrpt interpreter window, I was stymied because ghostscript is a > folder with hundreds of, I don't know, apps?, plug-ins? whatever. I > wasn't able to tell the preferences window what to ask for. > Try going to this page:
http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&page=readme-macosx for an explanation, and a link to a dmg file for MacOS for ghostscript. You can certainly use Scribus without ghostscript. I don't know that we have an up to date assessment of the gains for Mac users by having ghostscript. I helps with image processing, like transforming EPS to bitmap, for example. Greg
