On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:14 PM, isabel brison <ijayessbe at gmail.com> wrote: >> >> from the theoretical point of view, installing them in the same >> directory is a bad idea, could mess things up and should not really >> help... >> >> really, you just have to make sure that scribus calls the correct .exe >> file (or the binary file on mac) by fixing the path in the scribus >> preferences. >> >> > The trouble is, when I tried to do things properly (i.e. putting Gs64bit in > the 64bit folder and Scribus in the 32bit folder, and setting the path to > Gs in Scribus preferences), this error message kept popping up saying > something about Gs not being in its proper place (I'm afraid I don't > remember the exact message, it was months ago. Probably should have > reported it at the time...). > > When I tried putting them both in the same folder, it worked fine. It's > probably a messy solution, but it did work. Anyway, I'm interested to hear > if anyone has actually got the thing to work as it should with the programs > in different folders, and would like to know how they did it. Always best > to have everything neat and tidy :-)
You also need to set the GS_PROG environment variable to the correct executable, and add the appropriate Ghostscript bin directory to PATH I do this with Scribus Portable, and it works flawlessly. Gord Scribus Portable package maintainer
