[scribus] Windows 7 64-bit

Gregory Pittman gregp_ky at yahoo.com
Thu Dec 8 14:36:15 UTC 2011


On 12/08/2011 07:09 AM, Peter Nermander wrote:
>> I do remember that the Scribus page pointed me to the Ghostscript page
>> for download and information, and I remember that it was mentioned
>> "install Ghostscript before Scribus" somewhere. So I stopped the process
>> and decided to mow the lawn instead... ;-)
>
> It is a recommendation, because then the installer will find
> Ghostscript and set the path to it in Scribus settings.
>
> If you install Ghostscript after Scribus you will need to set the path
> to the Ghostscript executable manually.
>
> But you will not have to deinstall if you install Scribus first.
>

Usually the trickiest situation comes about when you install Ghostscript 
in a nonstandard location, and don't pay attention to where you 
installed it. As usual, Windows just does stuff, succeeds or fails, and 
if it fails is not typically helpful.

Greg




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