[scribus] Portable Scribus and external tools: ghostscript

[Gregory Pittman]

This is a followup to the original question, solved with the help of the
folks, esp. Gord Caswell, at portableapps.com

The basic situation I have at work is that the crusty XP is being
replaced by Win7. In the process, I can no longer install to the hard
disks (this is a hospital, where I may use any one of 20, 30, or more
computers depending on where I am and what is available).

I have network drive space of my own that I can write to. Fortunately,
Scribus Portable came to the rescue so that I could install a working
Scribus to that network drive. Even though I may not need ghostscript,
it's still annoying to get the message about it every time you start
Scribus, even though ghostscript too is installed on the network drive.
The setting just never took.

So I had a Scribus-ngPortable folder with Scribus inside. I tried
sticking gs inside there -- no help.

The trick, courtesy of Gord, is to create a folder at the same level
(not inside Scribus-ngPortable) named CommonFiles, then put gs in there.
I also renamed the gs9.14 folder to Ghostscript (don't know if that's
necessary) and from then on Scribus finds it automatically! The beauty
of this in my setting is that I don't have to reset the gs location
every time I use a desktop I haven't used before.

This is better than the situation with XP, where I had to install
Scribus every time I used a computer I hadn't used before. Then I would
have to tell Scribus where gs was. Then I would have to change my
settings from the defaults. And the recent files, and scripts, and etc.
on one computer are the same everywhere. Life is good.

Greg