On Wednesday, April 27, 2011 10:36:52 am Louis Desjardins wrote: > 2011/4/26 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > > > On 04/26/2011 03:21 AM, a.l.e wrote: > >> hi > >> > >>> First of all, you can ignore the message about not having > >>> > >>>>>>> Ghostscript and use Scribus without any trouble. The only > >>>>>>> thing is that you won't be able to create PDF files of your > >>>>>>> documents. Since that's often important, it's worth getting > >>>>>>> Ghostscript, but again, you can get to work in the meantime. > >>>>>>> This isn't true, BTW. Ghostscript has nothing to do with > >>>>>>> creating PDFs or even exporting as EPS. > >>>>>>> I stand corrected. > >>>>>> > >>>>>> That depends very much on what the content of the document is. In > >>>>>> some > >>> > >>> cases that is true. > >> > >> well, i know it may sound picky, but i prefert to fix this thread, > >> before somebody picks it up from the archive and gets a wrong advice: > >> > >> - ghostscript is not needed by scribus to create PDFs. > >> > >> - you can work with scribus without having to install ghostscript. > >> > >> - you only need ghostscript for some specific functions (print preview, > >> ...) or to include specific type of content (loading a PDF or an EPS > >> into an image frame, ...) > >> > >> > >> so: > >> > >> - it's correct that you probably can start working with scribus without > >> installing ghostscript > >> > >> - it's not correct that you need ghostscript to create PDFs > >> > >> - it's correct that you need ghostscript to include some types of > >> contents (into your documents or PDFs) > >> > >> -- when you are rasterizing a vector file into an image frame > > Considering the confusion around Ghostscript would it be possible to modify > the warning into something that would simply state that. Getting an error > message on the first install of Scribus is not fun from the user > perspective. It's not appealing, to say the least. > > This question is often raised. While we cannot control all the parameters > when someone installs Scribus, we could at least mention what is important > and what is not. I know we could put it in a readme file but a bit more > verbose warning could well solve the issue. > > Louis >
When I write about Scribus (see below) I just state that Ghostscript needs to be installed first. Technically it doesn't but my little white lie makes the whole problem go away. -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus: http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
