[scribus] Requirements for precompiled Scribus downloads.

[john Culleton]

On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 06:55:25 +0100 (CET)
"Christoph Schäfer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
wrote:

> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013 um
> > 10:18 Uhr Von: "john Culleton"
> > <John at wexfordpress.com> An:
> > scribus at lists.scribus.net Betreff: [scribus]
> > Requirements for precompiled Scribus
> > downloads.
> >
> > I already have the requirements for Scribus
> > on my Slackware Linux partition. But for
> > those that download a precompiled stable
> > version I have the following questions:
> > 
> > For Windows users:
> > 1. Do they need to install Ghostscript before
> > downloading and installing Scribus?
> > 2. Do they need to install ImageMagick before
> > downoading and installing Scribus?
> > 
> > For Linux users (various flavors):
> > 1. do they need to have Ghostscript installed
> > first?
> > 2. Do they need to install ImageMagick first?
> > 
> > For all users:
> > What Scribus functionality is lost if
> > ImageMagick is omitted? The reason I ask is
> > that I don't have ImageMagick included in my
> > (in)famous svn script. 
> > 
> > I know about Gimp already :<)
> 
> Hi John,
> 
> You don't need ImageMagick at all for anything
> Scribus-related. What you might need or want is
> GraphicsMagick instead, which will enable the
> import of almost all image formats supported by
> GM
> (http://www.graphicsmagick.org/formats.html),
> the exception being, for obvious reasons, video
> files and file formats for which a native
> Scribus import filter already exists.
> 
> To compile Scribus 1.5.x with GM you have to
> install:
> 
> - GraphicsMagick
> - GraphicsMagick-devel
> - libGraphicsMagick++-devel
> - libGraphicsMagick3
> - libGraphicsMagick++3
> 
> You also need to tell CMake that you want to
> build with GM support by adding
> -DWANT_GRAPHICSMAGICK=1 to your configuring
> command.
> 
> Other optional components:
> 
> * OpenSceneGraph, which will enable the import
> of 3D files, as well as export of 3D PDFs. You
> need OSG, OSG plug-ins, libopenscengraph, and
> libopenscengraph-devel. OSG will be detected
> automatically by CMake.
> 
> * If you download, compile and install version
> 0.0.6 of libmspub
> (http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/libmspub),
> Scribus will be built with an import filter for
> MS Publisher files. To compile libmspub you
> also need libwpd and libwpg, as well as the
> respective devel packages. Like OSG, libmspub
> will be detected automatically, provided you
> did run ldconfig after installing libmspub. To
> make sure that CMake detects libmspub you need
> to remove CMakeCache.txt in your Scribus source
> directory every time before running CMake
> again, i.e., after a svn update.
> 
> Ghostscript and another support program,
> UniConvertor, need not be installed during
> compile time and can be added afterwards.
> UniConvertor will enable importing additional
> vector formats, especially CorelDraw up to
> version X3.
> 
> I'm currently rewriting the Wiki article and
> will upload the new version with a list of all
> dependencies and options as soon as it's
> finished.
> 
> 
> HTH,
> 
> Christoph
> 
> ___
>
Thanks! I wondered why ImageMagick was used
instead of GraphicsMagick.

Your Wiki update will be most welcome!


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