On 12/08/2011 07:09 AM, Peter Nermander wrote: >> I do remember that the Scribus page pointed me to the Ghostscript page >> for download and information, and I remember that it was mentioned >> "install Ghostscript before Scribus" somewhere. So I stopped the process >> and decided to mow the lawn instead... ;-) > > It is a recommendation, because then the installer will find > Ghostscript and set the path to it in Scribus settings. > > If you install Ghostscript after Scribus you will need to set the path > to the Ghostscript executable manually. > > But you will not have to deinstall if you install Scribus first. >
Usually the trickiest situation comes about when you install Ghostscript in a nonstandard location, and don't pay attention to where you installed it. As usual, Windows just does stuff, succeeds or fails, and if it fails is not typically helpful. Greg
