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To: N3WBI3

The article inadvertently points out the biggest drawback to trying to use open source.

They reference Scribus, which sounds like something I’d like to play with. So I hit the Scribus page.
http://www.scribus.net/index.php?name=Sections&req=viewarticle&artid=2

It says first I need to download Ghostscript. They specify that you have to use gswin32c.exe, not gswin32.exe. I hit the link they provide. I bunch of releases of 32.exe, but no 32e.exe on the page.
Dead end.

Then I searched Sourceforge for the specified program. “
No results were found to match your current search criteria.”

Google it. Find a promising link to UWisc. Nope, just the 32.exe again, not the 32c.

Give up.


6 posted on 07/17/2007 12:53:35 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35
sudo apt-get install scribus

Password:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
scribus-template scribus-doc python-imaging-tk
The following NEW packages will be installed:
scribus
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 5494kB of archives.
After unpacking 16.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
After unpacking 16.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main scribus 1.2.5.dfsg-5ubuntu3 [5494kB]
Fetched 2802kB in 32s (86.0kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package scribus.
(Reading database ...
Unpacking scribus (from .../scribus_1.2.5.dfsg-5ubuntu3_i386.deb) ...
Setting up scribus (1.2.5.dfsg-5ubuntu3) ...
Done.

No problems here. Sounds like problems with your operating system to me. Perhaps you should upgrade to something with a less primitive software management system.

But rather than curse your dark Windows(TM), let me shed some light.

Try downloading gs850w32.exe

8 posted on 07/17/2007 4:17:44 PM PDT by Knitebane (Happily Microsoft free since 1999.)
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