On 4/27/11 6:53 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote: > 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.
The current version of the message points people to http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Ghostscript Please update that page as you see fit, we cannot include all the instructions in the world on a single dialog. Thanks Craig
