[Scribus] Scribus PDF-to-PS problem

[Bart Alberti]

Le Tigre wrote:

>Femke Snelting a ?crit :
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>But... whatever configuration for the pdf export I am chosing from 
>Scribus, I am getting this message when trying to convert a pdf to 
>postscript:
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>Error: /typecheck in --length--
>Operand stack:
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>And than:
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>Current allocation mode is local
>ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
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>I don't know much about Ghostscript, so maybe it is obvious to you 
>what's going wrong. All I know that everything is fine when I use a pdf 
>generated in indesign or msword :-( I've used different Scribus 
>documents to see whether it was a problem in the document itself, or 
>with embedded fonts but it seems that each one I try generates the same 
>error.
>
>I'm using Scribus 1.3.3 on linux/ubuntu and attempt to convert the pdf 
>with pdf2ps from the command line.
>
>Thanks a lot for your help!
>
>Femke
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>Isn't it a problem of Ghostscript version? 7.07 seems old, doesn't it?
>I had a pdf problem a few weeks ago, and went to Gs 8.53, that was the 
>solution.
>
>Raphael
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I built gs 8.53 (also gs 8.51 earlier) without problems on both SuSE 9.2 
and 9.3. I do --prefix=$HOME and you must ensure the gs libraries are 
correctly referenced for ~/lib and ~/share and ~/man

Bart Alberti