[Scribus] Scribus PDF-to-PS problem

Christoph Schäfer christoph-schaefer
Tue Apr 11 22:44:17 CEST 2006


Am Dienstag, 11. April 2006 22:36 schrieb PLinnell:
> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:31, Christoph Sch?fer wrote:
> > 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
>
> You might need to install gtk+ 1.2-devel
>
> There is a small gtk V1 app which comes with it

Thanks, I will try tomorrow.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter

Cheers,

Christoph



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