[Scribus] help with windows

Le Tigre scribus
Wed Feb 22 14:51:43 CET 2006


Christoph Sch?fer a ?crit :
> Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2006 14:14 schrieb Nicholas Vettese:
> 
>>Is there anyway to incorporate everything necessary to run Scribus into one
>>executable?  One download, all the programs, and an executable that will
>>install it all for you.
>>
>>nick
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Hendrik Bezuidenhout
>>  To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de
>>  Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 1:18 AM
>>  Subject: [Scribus] help with windows
>>
>>
>>  I have installed the new version of Scribus, and then it ask me to istall
>>gostscript, I have installed the new version of it, and now Scribus still
>>say it can not find gostscript.
> 
> 
> Hi Nick,
> 
> while it's technically possible, it can't be done due to licensing issues. 
> Artifex Ghostscript (the latest and greatest) is distributed under a licence 
> incompatible with the GPL. You may distribute gs and the source code only for 
> non-commercial purposes. Scribus is under the GPL and can therefore be sold 
> at any price. One could integrate GPL ghostscript, but this version is way 
> behind Artifex ghostscript.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Christoph
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> 
But it's not too complicated, you just have to install once Ghostscript, 
and then Scribus.
And after that, if you want a new version of Scribus, just 
uninstall/install. Not very complicated, I think, even for Ms-users!

Raphael



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