[scribus] Ghostscript

[John Ghormley KJ4UFG]

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info>wrote:

> On 4/27/11 6:53 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Louis Desjardins <
> > louis.desjardins at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 2011/4/26 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com>
> >>
> >>> On 04/26/2011 03:21 AM, a.l.e wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> hi
> >>>>
> >>>>> First of all, you can ignore the message about not having
> >>>>>>>>> Ghostscript and use Scribus without any trouble. The only
> >>>>>>>>> thing is that you won't be able to create PDF files of your
> >>>>>>>>> documents. Since that's often important, it's worth getting
> >>>>>>>>> Ghostscript, but again, you can get to work in the meantime.
> >>>>>>>>> This isn't true, BTW. Ghostscript has nothing to do with
> >>>>>>>>> creating PDFs or even exporting as EPS.
> >>>>>>>>> I stand corrected.
> >>>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> That depends very much on what the content of the document is. In
> >> some
> >>>>> cases that is true.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> well, i know it may sound picky, but i prefert to fix this thread,
> >>>> before somebody picks it up from the archive and gets a wrong advice:
> >>>>
> >>>> - ghostscript is not needed by scribus to create PDFs.
> >>>>
> >>>> - you can work with scribus without having to install ghostscript.
> >>>>
> >>>> - you only need ghostscript for some specific functions (print
> preview,
> >>>> ...) or to include specific type of content (loading a PDF or an EPS
> >>>> into an image frame, ...)
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> so:
> >>>>
> >>>> - it's correct that you probably can start working with scribus
> without
> >>>> installing ghostscript
> >>>>
> >>>> - it's not correct that you need ghostscript to create PDFs
> >>>>
> >>>> - it's correct that you need ghostscript to include some types of
> >>>> contents (into your documents or PDFs)
> >>>>
> >>>>     -- when you are rasterizing a vector file into an image frame
> >>>
> >>
> >> Considering the confusion around Ghostscript would it be possible to
> modify
> >> the warning into something that would simply state that. Getting an
> error
> >> message on the first install of Scribus is not fun from the user
> >> perspective. It's not appealing, to say the least.
> >>
> >> This question is often raised. While we cannot control all the
> parameters
> >> when someone installs Scribus, we could at least mention what is
> important
> >> and what is not. I know we could put it in a readme file but a bit more
> >> verbose warning could well solve the issue.
> >>
> >>
> > I with Louis on this one.  High among the things I detest are error
> messages
> > that don't give a clear indication of the problem from the newbie's
> > perspective.  Often, Linux applications suffer from this and I figure
> it's
> > because programmers expect Linux users to be more learned or
> sophisticated
> > PC users.  While that may or may not be true, a good error message should
> > explain itself to even the most unsophisticated user.
>
> The current version of the message points people to
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Ghostscript
>
> Please update that page as you see fit, we cannot include all the
> instructions in the world on a single dialog.
>
> Thanks
> Craig
>
> FWIW, no one asked you to do that.  Must be a troublesome day for ya, huh?
I understand.  I've had one of those today, myself.
-- 
John Ghormley  KJ4UFG
Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal*
Walkertown, NC  27051
editor at sera.org
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