scribus, ghostscript and espgs

Florin Braescu florin at lunar-linux.org
Fri Jul 15 19:35:34 UTC 2005


Pe data de Vin 15 Iul 2005 21:50, Dennis Veatch a scris:
> Fiddling around with scribus version 1.3.0. It warns to use
> freetype2-2.1.10 anything lesser don't bother to submit a bug report. No
> big deal. I installed what it wanted. Nothing blew up so far with the
> lastest freetype2.
>
> Well then the configure phase complained about no ghostscript. Well I had
> espgs installed which moonbase says conflicts. So I installed
> ghostscript-8.16. So then scribus asks if I want espgs to make use of eps
> images.
>
> Well theres the rub and at this point is there still a conflict between
> ghostscript and espgs? Apparently scribus does not think there is else why
> would it ask that both be installed?
> _______________________________________________

  Well, there is a known problem with freetype > 2.1.7 and firefox, mozila. 
Both are not working with versions like that. Better check that out with the 
2.1.10 version of freetype. I use this version on my system since it's 
launch, but i do not have firefox nor mozilla installed :)

  Florin


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