On 02/17/2010 06:54 PM, 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.
Ghostscript is located at run time. Scribus looks at a standard location for ghostscript when it starts up. For Windows this would be something like Program Files\gs\... I have installed ghostscript after Scribus and it automatically finds it. The best thing is to know where your ghostscript is so you can tell Scribus how to find it. Greg
