On Friday 03 June 2005 07:17, Greg Novak wrote: > I deperately want to use Scribus. > > I am making a scientific poster, which in practice means collecting > a bunch of plot and images I've made over the past few months and > putting them together with a little text and perhaps a few line > drawings into a nice looking 3ft x 4ft document that I > will print on a large format printer. These plots and images tend > to be EPS files but they can be rather diverse. >
Avoid images in EPS files. Export hi-res tiff if possible. > Scribus chokes on the more complex EPS files I feed it. It takes a > long time to convert it and there are problems with the images. > Even the simpler ones seem to make the text look funny in the > conversion. > Scribus EPS import into native vectors does not handle bitmap images yet. Sometimes it may be font related. > I would in fact be just as happy if Scribus _didn't_ convert the > EPS files to its native format. I'm eventually going to export the > whole thing to Postscript (or at least I have in the past) anyway, > so if I can just place boxes where I want the plots and then have > them show up in the Postscript output, that'd be great. > > As it stands, the only program I can find that seems to do what I > want is... Xfig. > > So I guess I'm asking asking: > 0) Am I crazy for trying to do what I'm trying to do? Ie, is there > a much better approach that I'm not seeing? No. > 1) General tips for dealing with importing EPS files and arranging > them into larger documents? Should I convert them to something > else first? I'd like to avoid rasterizing them. See below. > 2) Any links to battle-hardened tools for converting between vector > file formats? > Converting is the difficult part, especially for more complex PS files. > Thanks for any guidance, > Greg The first step is to ensure you have the latest GS 8.51. Depending on your distro, you might want to do a parallel install. Hints here: http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=dtptoolbox&page=toolbox7 There are sometimes dramatic differences in the EPS import quality with GS 8.x vs 7.x Peter Peter
