As I have been working on some additional documentation regarding ghostscript, I find the following:
- GS is necessary for rasterizing PDFs, PS files, and EPS files. You can go through the motions of importing one of these, but on attempted PDF export, your document behaves as if an image is missing. - GS is also necessary for vector import of PS and EPS files, in that there is some processing of the file before it can be placed on the document page which requires GS. You get no warning, no error, simply nothing happens after you select the file. This does not affect SVG import. - GS is needed for Print Preview. On Linux at least, it's hard if not impossible to use Preferences to "unfind" gs. I even tried creating a bogus file named gs in my home directory, selected it, but encountered no problem on restarting Scribus. You would have to move the binary, or, as I did, simply rename the gs bin file to something else to break it. This is how I experimented. If you break your gs in this way, start Scribus, then unbreak it (rename or move back to where it should be), you immediately have gs available for rasterization for import into image frame or even vector PS and EPS import. OTOH, you need to restart Scribus to be able to use Print Preview. Greg
