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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0011048 | Scribus | General | public | 2012-08-26 05:53 | 2012-11-13 20:34 |
| Reporter | ale | Assigned To | jghali | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | Reproducibility | N/A |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Product Version | 1.4.2.svn | ||||
| Fixed in Version | 1.4.2.svn | ||||
| Summary | 0011048: Automatic detection of Ghostscript 64bit on Windows | ||||
| Description | One of the biggest issues our users face on windows and mac is the hassle of installing Ghostscript. While I still think that we should make GS more optional (and ask for it when it's needed not at boot time), there is a new issue that is giving headaches to our users: getting the right path to GS. Since we don't manage to get everybody to switch to Linux (where the issue is kindly solved by the packagers) I would like to suggest that we should add a "Detect Ghostscript" button that would look for common paths (or even one given by the user?) and tries to find a matching Ghostscript. | ||||
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Looking for common paths is something Scribus already performs. On Mac paths in which Ghostscript is located are not visible to the user, so adding a button is not useful as user will not be able to select the proper directory. On Windows for various reasons, Ghostscript must be searched through registry and not using a path search. On 64bit Windows additionnally 32bit application do not have by default access to 64bit registry and 64bit application should not write to 32 registry. In our case the problem is by consequent the detection of Ghostscript 64bit as Scribus is currently a 32bit application. |
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jean, afaict scribus looks for common paths, but only on install. and as you write it fails to find ghostscript. this would not be a real hassle if the users would not be asked to install ghostscript each time they launch scribus. the current state gives really a bad user experience for something that, basically, has nothing to do with scribus' own capabilities. and this is a pity. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2012-08-26 05:53 | ale | New Issue | |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Note Added: 0028871 | |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Product Version | 1.5.0svn => 1.4.2.svn |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Summary | Add a "Detect Ghostscript" button => Automatic detection of Ghostscript 64bit on Windows |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Status | new => resolved |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Fixed in Version | => 1.4.2.svn |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2012-08-26 18:27 | jghali | Assigned To | => jghali |
| 2012-08-26 18:30 | jghali | Note Edited: 0028871 | |
| 2012-08-27 05:55 | ale | Note Added: 0028873 | |
| 2012-11-13 20:34 | cbradney | Status | resolved => closed |
