<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 10:36 AM, Louis Desjardins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:louis.desjardins@gmail.com">louis.desjardins@gmail.com</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">2011/4/26 Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>><br>
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> On 04/26/2011 03:21 AM, a.l.e wrote:<br>
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>> 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 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>
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</div></div>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>
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</blockquote><div><br>I with Louis on this one. High among the things I detest are error messages that don't give a clear indication of the problem from the newbie's perspective. Often, Linux applications suffer from this and I figure it's because programmers expect Linux users to be more learned or sophisticated PC users. While that may or may not be true, a good error message should explain itself to even the most unsophisticated user.<br>
</div>-- <br></div>John Ghormley KJ4UFG<br>Editor, SERA <i>Repeater Journal</i><br>Walkertown, NC USA<br><a href="mailto:editor@sera.org" target="_blank">editor@sera.org</a><br><br>