I've been trying to use Scribus to be able to edit a bunch of InDesign documents I created more than a decade ago. I have all of them as PDFs, version 1.4, but Scribus can't open any of them.
Here is the console error message when trying to open a 1 page PDF with only a single image and some text boxes.
PostScript import failed when calling gs as:
-q -dNOPAUSE -dNODISPLAY -dBATCH -dDELAYBIND -g2448x3168 -r288 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -c 0 0 translate -sTraceFile=C:\Users\alber\AppData\Local\Temp\\\ps.out -sExportFiles=X:\Black Box\Action\QuickSheet\Document--QuickSheet-Dragon_Axe C:\Program Files (x86)\Scribus 1.4.8\libs\import.prolog X:\Black Box\Action\QuickSheet\QuickSheet-Dragon_Axe.pdf -c flush cfile closefile quit
Ghostscript diagnostics:
GPL Ghostscript 9.55.0: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
ant Ghostscript
to execute in a safer environment, but at the same time
have selected DELAYBIND. Unless you use this option with
care (and specifically, remember to call .bindnow) it is
possible that malicious code may be able to evade the
limited security offered by the SAFER option.
Error: /undefined in GS_PDF_ProcSet
Operand stack:
false
Execution stack:
%interp_exit .runexec2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
--nostringval-- --nostringval-- false 1 %stopped_push 1990 1 3 %oparray_pop 1989 1 3 %oparra
y_pop 1977 1 3 %oparray_pop 1834 1 3 %oparray_pop --nostringval-- %errorexec_pop .runexec2 --no
stringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--
Dictionary stack:
--dict:1213/1684(ro)(G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:76/200(L)--
Current allocation mode is global
Current file position is 2261
I'd update to the latest version of scribus (1.5 .x beta) and then try opening them and see how well it imports them. x (x)
We, if the current stable release can't open PDF versions that it says it supports, then I'm not sure how a beta would help.
I would prefer if someone at Scribus could look at the log info and tell me if it's a scribus problem, ghostscript problem, etc.
I am not a developer, but the error seems to come from Ghostscript trying to convert the PDF to postscript (at least the command line shown has a .ps file set as output).
Nothing else, I guess.
Scribus won't work for me.
My guess is that there is an error in the PDF causing Ghostscript to fail the conversion.