r15573 by christoph - doc update
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Mon Oct 18 20:26:21 CEST 2010
Author: christoph
Date: Mon Oct 18 18:26:21 2010
New Revision: 15573
URL: http://scribus.info/websvn/listing.php?repname=Scribus&sc=1&rev=15573
Log:
doc update
Modified:
trunk/Scribus/doc/en/toolbox6.html
Modified: trunk/Scribus/doc/en/toolbox6.html
URL: http://scribus.info/websvn/diff.php?repname=Scribus&rev=15573&path=/trunk/Scribus/doc/en/toolbox6.html
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-<html>
-<head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
- <title>GSview and Scribus</title>
-</head>
-<body>
-<h2>GSview and Scribus</h2>
-<p><strong>Parts of this section are thanks to Russell Lang, author and maintainer of GSview, epstool and Ghostscript for his hints and patiently answering my questions about GSview and Ghostscript. It has allowed the Scribus Team to use some of the more advanced features of Ghostscript in Scribus. </strong></p>
-<p>First off, It is in my very strong opinion, <strong>a superior replacement for gv and derivatives. Moreover, for viewing PDF for print purposes, it is more reliable than any other open source PDF viewer.</strong> Although Acrobat Reader® is in my experience sometimes a better pure viewer for PDF, I also consider GSview one of the most essential tools to have when using Scribus. GSview has a handful of extremely useful functions. For those unfamiliar, it provides an easy to use "front end" to
-Ghostscript, as well as <code>pstoedit</code> for converting bitmaps into vector files. For those coming from the Windows/Mac world, it also has the functionality of Distiller with a graphical front end for those applications which do not export PDF natively.</p>
-<p>Second ensure you have the latest version 4.7+. (GSview migrated from the Windows world, where it has been excellent since the 4.x versions.)</p>
-<p>Third, for GSview to work properly, the font paths must be setup in the GSview Preferences correctly. Notes further on.</p>
+<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
+<html><head>
+
+ <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
+ <title>GSview and Scribus</title>
+
+
+</head><body>
+<h2>GSview*</h2>
+
+<p>One important thing to note is that <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/gsview/index.htm">GSview</a> <span style="font-style: italic;">must not be confused</span> with <strong style="font-weight: normal;">ghostview, gv and their derivatives!</strong>
+Although Adobe Reader® is often a better pure viewer for PDFs, GSview
+should be regarded as one of the most essential tools to have when
+using
+Scribus. GSview has some extremely useful functions. For those
+unfamiliar with the program, it provides an easy to use “front end†to
+Ghostscript, as well as <code>pstoedit</code> for converting bitmaps
+into vector files or vice versa. For those coming from a traditional
+DTP background in the Mac/Windows world, it also
+provides some of the functionality of Acrobat Distiller.<br>
+</p>
+
+<p>You should always use the latest version, at least 4.7. (GSview
+migrated from the
+Windows world, where it has been excellent since the 4.x versions.)</p>
+
<p>For use with Scribus, GSview has the following features:</p>
+
<ul>
- <li>With the help of <a href="http://pstoedit.net">pstoedit</a>, you can convert bitmap images or PDF content back into SVG and other scalable vector file formats.</li>
- <li>The ability to preview, convert and add previews (Tiff recommended) for raw EPS (Encapsulated PostScript Files). This is done using <a href="http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/epstool.htm">Epstool</a> from the same author. Epstool can also fix EPS files with incorrect or missing bounding boxes. This is a separate tool to be installed and works as a plugin like pstoedit.</li>
- <li>The ability to extract text from a PDF.</li>
- <li>The ability to preview, convert and add previews for raw PostScript files. An easy to use interface for creating PDF's in applications without the high level of export capabilities of Scribus. (You are still recommended to use the Export to PDF Scribus, as it is optimized for Scribus files.)</li>
- <li>As an easy to use front end to Ghostscript's less well known features such as image conversion and re-sampling. The example below uses the <strong>epswrite</strong> "device". There are others in Ghostscript including: converting between TIFF formats, changing the color depth of at TIFF, JPEG or the color space of an image.</li>
+
+ <li>With the help of <a href="http://pstoedit.net">pstoedit</a>, you
+can convert bitmap images or PDF content back into SVG and other
+scalable vector file formats.</li>
+ <li>The ability to preview, convert and add previews (TIFF
+recommended) for raw EPS (Encapsulated PostScript files).</li>
+ <li>The ability to extract text from a PDF.</li>
+ <li>The ability to preview, convert and add previews for raw
+PostScript files.</li>
+ <li>An easy-to-use front end to Ghostscript’s less well known
+features such as image conversion and re-sampling. There are other
+features in
+Ghostscript, including: converting between TIFF formats, changing the
+color depth of a TIFF, JPEG or the color space of an image.</li>
</ul>
-<p>One example where I use GSview with Scribus is for troubleshooting/fixing EPS files which do not display correctly within Scribus. Although many applications can generate EPS files, some add their own quirks into the EPS, which can cause problems when used in other applications (like Scribus).</p>
-<p>So, if you find difficulty with an EPS or PDF you wish to use in Scribus, open the EPS in GSview. Then, use the key command <strong>M</strong> to display messages from Ghostscript. The messages can indicate problems which cause display or printing errors. You can also use the <strong>epswrite</strong> "device" to re-save the EPS, which can help to strip out or fix issues with an EPS.</p>
-<p>You can also <em>rasterize</em> an EPS image like this, by converting to PNG or TIFF and then resize, adjust colors etc with an image program like GIMP or Corel Photoshop. I did this with a troublesome EPS and converted it to a 600DPI PNG, which would then display and print perfectly from Scribus. Sometimes when working with images and DTP there are several different ways to accomplish the same task - in my example, it was getting a complex EPS file from Illustrator to display and print properly from Scribus. The fact that there problem displaying the EPS, was not a bug in Scribus, but some non-standard PostScript info in the file, which by using Ghostscript as a back end to GSview I could strip out and then display properly in Scribus.</p>
-<p> Note: GSview uses the <code>libgs.so</code> shared library to access Ghostscript. Not all Linux distributions ship this, so the hints for compiling Ghostscript with a paralell install really apply here. </p>
+
+<p>One example where GSview is extremely useful with Scribus is
+troubleshooting or fixing EPS files that do not display correctly
+within
+Scribus. Although many applications can generate EPS files, some add
+their own quirks into the EPS, which can cause problems when used in
+other programs (like Scribus).</p>
+
+<p>So, if you find difficulty with an EPS you wish to use in
+Scribus, open the EPS in GSview. Then, use the key command <strong>M</strong>
+to display messages from Ghostscript. The messages can indicate
+problems which cause display or printing errors. You can also use the <strong>epswrite</strong>
+“device†to re-save the EPS, which can help to strip out or fix issues
+with an EPS.</p>
+
+<p>You can also <em>rasterize</em> an EPS image, by converting it to
+PNG
+or TIFF and then resize, adjust colors etc with an image program like
+GIMP or Krita.<br>
+</p>
+
+<p> Note that GSview uses the <code>libgs.so</code> shared library to
+access Ghostscript. Not all Linux distributions ship this, so the hints
+for compiling Ghostscript with a paralell install really apply here. </p>
+
<h4>Getting Gsview:</h4>
-<p>Not all Linux distributions offer GSview. However, for those with rpm based systems, a simple rpm command will have you with an easy to install rpm. The GSview tarball already has a built-in spec file. A simple: </p>
-<blockquote><table width="100%" border="1" bgcolor="#eeeeee"><tr><td border="0">
-<pre>
-rpmbuild -tb ./gsview-4.7.tar.gz
-</pre></td></tr></table></blockquote>
-<p>Will get you started. Windows has a convetional setup.exe installer. Unfortunately, it is not yet available for MacOSX. </p>
-<p>GSview since about 4.3, has been, in my experience, the most reliable and versatile PDF viewer along with Acrobat Reader on Linux. For DTP with Scribus, I consider it essential.</p>
-<p>Now, for advanced hints with GSview and Ghostscript, see: <a href="toolbox7.html">Advanced Ghostscript and GSview Hints</a>. For detailed hints on setting up Ghostscript to help you find all your fonts, see: <a href="gsfont.html">Ghostscript Fonts</a>.</p>
-</body>
-</html>
+
+<p>GSview is available for most Linux distributions, at least the major
+ones. Otherwise you can build GSview by following
+the instructions provided in the <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/">source package</a>. For
+Windows and OS/2 and eComStation you can download <a href="http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/gsview/get49.htm">conventional
+installers</a> .
+Unfortunately, there is no current version for Mac OS X available. </p>
+
+<p>A special note to users of OpenSUSE 11.3: The required GTK 1
+libraries are no longer available for this Linux distribution, but you
+can use the <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/GNOME1/openSUSE_11.2/i586/">versions
+compiled for 11.2</a>. You need to install the gtk-1.20 and glib
+packages (if you want to build GSview yourself, you also need the
+respective devel RPMs), as well as the <a href="http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/GNOME1/openSUSE_11.2/noarch/gtk-lang-1.2.10-1093.1.noarch.rpm">lang
+package</a>.<br>
+</p>
+
+<p>Now, for advanced hints with GSview and Ghostscript, see: <a href="toolbox7.html">Advanced Ghostscript and GSview Hints</a></p>
+
+<p>*) <span style="font-style: italic;">Parts of this section are
+thanks to Russell Lang, author and maintainer of GSview, epstool and
+Ghostscript for his hints and patiently answering questions about
+GSview and Ghostscript.</span></p>
+
+</body></html>
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