[Scribus] Scribus PDF-to-PS problem

[Christoph Schäfer]

Am Dienstag, 11. April 2006 22:29 schrieb Bart Alberti:
> Le Tigre wrote:
> >Femke Snelting a ?crit :
> >
> >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:
> >
> >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
> >
> >
> >
> >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
>
> I built gs 8.53 (also gs 8.51 earlier) without problems on both SuSE 9.2
> and 9.3. I do --prefix=$HOME and you must ensure the gs libraries are
> correctly referenced for ~/lib and ~/share and ~/man

I did the same and tried under SuSE 10.0. Ghostscript built without issues, 
but I can't build libgs.so. No matter what I tried.
>
> Bart Alberti

Christoph