I recorded this wisdom in http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/ScribusPortable JL
Le 29/04/2014 18:08, Gregory Pittman a ?crit : > This is a followup to the original question, solved with the help of the > folks, esp. Gord Caswell, at portableapps.com > > The basic situation I have at work is that the crusty XP is being > replaced by Win7. In the process, I can no longer install to the hard > disks (this is a hospital, where I may use any one of 20, 30, or more > computers depending on where I am and what is available). > > I have network drive space of my own that I can write to. Fortunately, > Scribus Portable came to the rescue so that I could install a working > Scribus to that network drive. Even though I may not need ghostscript, > it's still annoying to get the message about it every time you start > Scribus, even though ghostscript too is installed on the network drive. > The setting just never took. > > So I had a Scribus-ngPortable folder with Scribus inside. I tried > sticking gs inside there -- no help. > > The trick, courtesy of Gord, is to create a folder at the same level > (not inside Scribus-ngPortable) named CommonFiles, then put gs in there. > I also renamed the gs9.14 folder to Ghostscript (don't know if that's > necessary) and from then on Scribus finds it automatically! The beauty > of this in my setting is that I don't have to reset the gs location > every time I use a desktop I haven't used before. > > This is better than the situation with XP, where I had to install > Scribus every time I used a computer I hadn't used before. Then I would > have to tell Scribus where gs was. Then I would have to change my > settings from the defaults. And the recent files, and scripts, and etc. > on one computer are the same everywhere. Life is good. > > Greg > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net >
