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. -- John Ghormley KJ4UFG Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal* Walkertown, NC USA editor at sera.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110427/a5f3fded/attachment.html>
