Hello, We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines.
Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Greg. http://inkscape.org/ -- Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferis...@gmail.com Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu
