[scribus] Portable Scribus and external tools: ghostscript

[JLuc]

I recorded this wisdom in http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/ScribusPortable
JL


Le 29/04/2014 18:08, Gregory Pittman a écrit :
> This is a followup to the original question, solved with the help of the
> folks, esp. Gord Caswell, at portableapps.com
>
> The basic situation I have at work is that the crusty XP is being
> replaced by Win7. In the process, I can no longer install to the hard
> disks (this is a hospital, where I may use any one of 20, 30, or more
> computers depending on where I am and what is available).
>
> I have network drive space of my own that I can write to. Fortunately,
> Scribus Portable came to the rescue so that I could install a working
> Scribus to that network drive. Even though I may not need ghostscript,
> it's still annoying to get the message about it every time you start
> Scribus, even though ghostscript too is installed on the network drive.
> The setting just never took.
>
> So I had a Scribus-ngPortable folder with Scribus inside. I tried
> sticking gs inside there -- no help.
>
> The trick, courtesy of Gord, is to create a folder at the same level
> (not inside Scribus-ngPortable) named CommonFiles, then put gs in there.
> I also renamed the gs9.14 folder to Ghostscript (don't know if that's
> necessary) and from then on Scribus finds it automatically! The beauty
> of this in my setting is that I don't have to reset the gs location
> every time I use a desktop I haven't used before.
>
> This is better than the situation with XP, where I had to install
> Scribus every time I used a computer I hadn't used before. Then I would
> have to tell Scribus where gs was. Then I would have to change my
> settings from the defaults. And the recent files, and scripts, and etc.
> on one computer are the same everywhere. Life is good.
>
> Greg
>
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