[Scribus] Scribus PDF-to-PS problem

[Femke Snelting]

I've updated Ghostscript to gs-gpl 8.01 (the lazy option; I'm getting 
errors with the 8.53 package -- something to look into when I have more 
time...) and now also pdf2ps seems to work correctly. Thanks again for 
the help!

Femke

Le Tigre wrote:
> Femke Snelting a ?crit :
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I'm preparing a Printing Party / Open Source Publishing demonstration 
>> here in Brussels with my friend Harrisson, and for that I'm trying out 
>> the excellent recipe for booklet printing that was posted on the list a 
>> few weeks ago: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet
>>
>> But... whatever configuration for the pdf export I am chosing from 
>> Scribus, I am getting this message when trying to convert a pdf to 
>> postscript:
>>
>> Error: /typecheck in --length--
>> Operand stack:
>>     --dict:6/6(L)--   Fo3S0   11.0   --dict:9/9(L)--   --dict:9/9(L)-- 
>>   409060  --dict:9/9(L)--   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
>> --nostringval--   256   --nostringval--
>>
>> [etc]
>>
>> And than:
>>
>> Current allocation mode is local
>> ESP Ghostscript 7.07.1: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
>>
>> I don't know much about Ghostscript, so maybe it is obvious to you 
>> what's going wrong. All I know that everything is fine when I use a pdf 
>> generated in indesign or msword :-( I've used different Scribus 
>> documents to see whether it was a problem in the document itself, or 
>> with embedded fonts but it seems that each one I try generates the same 
>> error.
>>
>> I'm using Scribus 1.3.3 on linux/ubuntu and attempt to convert the pdf 
>> with pdf2ps from the command line.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for your help!
>>
>> Femke
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> Isn't it a problem of Ghostscript version? 7.07 seems old, doesn't it?
> I had a pdf problem a few weeks ago, and went to Gs 8.53, that was the 
> solution.
> 
> Raphael
> 
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