<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Craig Bradney <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cbradney@scribus.info">cbradney@scribus.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 4/27/11 6:53 PM, John Ghormley KJ4UFG wrote:<br>
> On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Louis Desjardins <<br>
> <a href="mailto:louis.desjardins@gmail.com">louis.desjardins@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> 2011/4/26 Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>><br>
>><br>
>>> On 04/26/2011 03:21 AM, a.l.e wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> hi<br>
>>>><br>
>>>>> First of all, you can ignore the message about not having<br>
>>>>>>>>> Ghostscript and use Scribus without any trouble. The only<br>
>>>>>>>>> thing is that you won't be able to create PDF files of your<br>
>>>>>>>>> documents. Since that's often important, it's worth getting<br>
>>>>>>>>> Ghostscript, but again, you can get to work in the meantime.<br>
>>>>>>>>> This isn't true, BTW. Ghostscript has nothing to do with<br>
>>>>>>>>> creating PDFs or even exporting as EPS.<br>
>>>>>>>>> I stand corrected.<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> That depends very much on what the content of the document is. In<br>
>> some<br>
>>>>> cases that is true.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> well, i know it may sound picky, but i prefert to fix this thread,<br>
>>>> before somebody picks it up from the archive and gets a wrong advice:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - ghostscript is not needed by scribus to create PDFs.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - you can work with scribus without having to install ghostscript.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - you only need ghostscript for some specific functions (print preview,<br>
>>>> ...) or to include specific type of content (loading a PDF or an EPS<br>
>>>> into an image frame, ...)<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> so:<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - it's correct that you probably can start working with scribus without<br>
>>>> installing ghostscript<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - it's not correct that you need ghostscript to create PDFs<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> - it's correct that you need ghostscript to include some types of<br>
>>>> contents (into your documents or PDFs)<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> -- when you are rasterizing a vector file into an image frame<br>
>>><br>
>><br>
>> Considering the confusion around Ghostscript would it be possible to modify<br>
>> the warning into something that would simply state that. Getting an error<br>
>> message on the first install of Scribus is not fun from the user<br>
>> perspective. It's not appealing, to say the least.<br>
>><br>
>> This question is often raised. While we cannot control all the parameters<br>
>> when someone installs Scribus, we could at least mention what is important<br>
>> and what is not. I know we could put it in a readme file but a bit more<br>
>> verbose warning could well solve the issue.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
> I with Louis on this one. High among the things I detest are error messages<br>
> that don't give a clear indication of the problem from the newbie's<br>
> perspective. Often, Linux applications suffer from this and I figure it's<br>
> because programmers expect Linux users to be more learned or sophisticated<br>
> PC users. While that may or may not be true, a good error message should<br>
> explain itself to even the most unsophisticated user.<br>
<br>
</div></div>The current version of the message points people to<br>
<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Ghostscript" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Ghostscript</a><br>
<br>
Please update that page as you see fit, we cannot include all the<br>
instructions in the world on a single dialog.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
<font color="#888888">Craig<br>
</font><div><div></div><br></div></blockquote><div>FWIW, no one asked you to do that. Must be a troublesome day for ya, huh? I understand. I've had one of those today, myself.<br></div></div>-- <br>John Ghormley KJ4UFG<br>
Editor, SERA <i>Repeater Journal</i><br>Walkertown, NC 27051<br><a href="mailto:editor@sera.org" target="_blank">editor@sera.org</a><br><br>