PortableApps.com is proud to announce the release of Scribus Portable 1.4.1. Scribus is an Open Source program that brings professional page layout to your desktop with a combination of press-ready output and new approaches to page design. Underneath a modern and user-friendly interface, Scribus supports professional publishing features, such as color separations, CMYK and Spot Color support, ICC color management, and versatile PDF creation. Ghostscript Portable, which Scribus uses for postscript and PDF handling, is also available. It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.
Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.
Features
Scribus has many unexpected touches, such as powerful vector drawing tools, support for a huge number of file types via import/export filters, emulation of color blindness or the rendering of markup languages like LaTeX or Lilypond inside Scribus. The Scribus file format is XML-based and open. Unlike proprietary binary file formats, even damaged documents can be recovered with a simple text editor - sometimes a challenging problem with other page layout programs. Scribus has been translated into more than 25 languages, and more are coming in the future.
PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format
Scribus Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Suite including the Menu and Backup Utility.
Download
Scribus Portable is available for immediate download from the Scribus Portable homepage. Get it today!
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Problem with Postscript files
I've just downloaded Scribus portable (1.4.1) and Ghostscript portable (9.0.5) from https://portableapps.com/apps and installed both on inside my portable apps directory:
C:\xxx\PortableApps\ScribusPortable
C:\xxx\PortableApps\Ghostscript
Scribus seems to work fine, and it automatically detected my GIMP installation, on
C:\xxx\PortableApps\GIMPPortable\GIMPPortable.exe
, but it doesn't detected the Ghostscript installation.
I've added it through File -> Preferences -> External Tools -> PostScript Interpreter -> C:\xxx\PortableApps\Ghostscript\bin\gswin32c.exe
but still have problems:
1) This change on Scribus is not saved, so it is lost when I close it, therefore it is necessary to add it every time the application is started. Am I missing something or there is some problem with this portable app?
2) The .ps files are displayed incorrectly, with entire text garbled (without the plugin path it shows only a blank document). Is there any other version of Ghostscript portable that works with Scribus?
Any ideas?
Common Files
Ghostscript goes in PortableApps\CommonFiles
default
When installing ghostscript portable, it defaults the installation directory to
X:\PortableApps\CommonFiles\Ghostscript.
Thanks
Thanks for the quick answers!
I changed Ghostscript to C:\xxx\PortableApps\CommonFiles\Ghostscript and it indeed solved the first problem.
(I remeber that I saw a "Common" directory when running its installation file. Running it again I noticed that it default path is "\CommonFiles\Ghostscript" as you said, but when I change the path to PortableApps by selecting "X:\XXX\PortableApps" in the file browser it becomes "X:\XXX\PortableApps\Ghostscript").
The second problem still remais. I've tested with some files at http://www.adobetutorialz.com/articles/205/1/Sample-PostScript-files-and... and it seems to works fine.
But when I try to open the file at www.ee.ed.ac.uk/~gerard/VLSI/verilog.ps , it shows garbled text, despite that file displays ok with GSview (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get50.htm) and Ghostscript from http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?