Opened 15 years ago

Closed 9 months ago

#18791 closed defect (fixed)

scribus warning about missing ghostscript

Reported by: hweber@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.7.0
Keywords: Cc: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)
Port: scribus

Description (last modified by dbevans (David B. Evans))

scribus warning after scribus start:

The following programs are missing:

Ghostscript: You cannot use EPS images or PrintPreview

but there is ghostscript:

mbp:~ hweber$ port installed | grep -i ghost
  ghostscript @8.63_1 (active)

my specs:

MacBook Pro 15"
MacBookPro1,1
Intel Core Duo
Mac OS X 10.5.6 (9G55)
Darwin 9.6.0

port version
Version: 1.700

port info scribus
scribus @1.3.3.11 (print)
Variants:    darwin_9, universal

thank you for helping

Change History (6)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: hweber@… removed
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to mail@…

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by dbevans (David B. Evans)

Description: modified (diff)
Keywords: ghostscript added

comment:3 Changed 15 years ago by (none)

Milestone: Port Bugs

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

comment:4 Changed 13 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Keywords: warning ghostscript removed
Owner: changed from mail@… to macports-tickets@…
Summary: scribus warningscribus warning about missing ghostscript

comment:5 Changed 10 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:6 in reply to:  description Changed 9 months ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

This is a very old ticket so I'm going to close in the hopes that you were able to resolve the problem long ago.

Replying to hweber@…:

scribus warning after scribus start:

If you mean you see this right when you launch scribus, then I don't see that with either scribus @1.4.8 or scribus-devel @1.5.8, which hopefully means it was fixed.

Ghostscript: You cannot use EPS images or PrintPreview

Searching the Internet for this error message, I found several sites mentioning that the solution is to go to the Preferences window, External Tools section, and at the top in the box labeled PostScript Interpreter, the field Name of Executable should have the path to the Ghostscript executable, /opt/local/bin/gs, in it. On my system, that happened automatically; if it didn't for you, that's the value you should fill in there, replacing /opt/local with your MacPorts prefix if it's different.

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