[scribus] to whomever can help

Craig Bradney cbradney at scribus.info
Thu Feb 18 00:51:12 CET 2010


On 2/18/10 12:54 AM, John Culleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 17 February 2010 18:28:42 Craig Bradney wrote:
>   
>> On 2/18/10 12:30 AM, a.l.e wrote:
>>     
>>> hi john,
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Sequence is important. Ghostscript needs to be installed first. I
>>>> would try reinstalling Scribus and see if that helps.
>>>>         
>>> are you sure about it?
>>>       
>> This is false.. all you have to do is set the ghostscript location in
>> preferences after ghostscript is installed.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>>     
> All I know is what I read in the manual on page 8, section 1.2 "Scribus on Mac 
> OS X". The steps described there are:
> 1. Download Ghostscript 8.5 or higher from Source Forge and install.
> 2. Move folder "Ghostscript.Framework" to /LIbrary/Frameworks.
> 3. Scribus should detect Ghostscript automatically. 
>
> The _following_ paragraph describes installing Scribus on Mac OS  X.
>
> The question about step three is, does that detection occur at Scribus install 
> time or at run time?  In either case installing Ghostscript first and moving it 
> wouldn't hurt.
>   
It doesn't hurt, but it is not mandatory. Reinstalling is not necessary.

Craig




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