stu seven wrote: > + I know, in principle, Scribus allows SVGs to be imported... > for me, this seems to work only with very small SVGs. > > Scribus also seems to optimize it's PDF output... which > should be good... except that, when I put a PDF-d image in > the scribus document, it ruins it... re-optimizes it... sort of > like drinking your soda twice(?). > If you go to the Archives of this list, there was some discussion recently about optimizing placed PDFs in Scribus -- output DPI is important. > So here is my question... is anyone having success > including SVGs, or, other scalable format files in scribus > documents ? > SVG works very well -- some exceptions being some issues sometimes with gradients and patterns. Not everything in SVG is (yet) supported. You simply need to resize any large ones in Scribus -- should come out Ok. > note: Ive had fairly good results with plain bmp or jpeg graphics... > however, this falls apart when the resulting PDF is enlarged at all. > The recommended formats are tiff and png for bitmaps -- they need to be big enough to be able to generate the DPI you need for the PDF -- Scribus can't create pixels that aren't there. Look at Properties > Image > X-DPI, Y-DPI, also export settings when you make the PDF.
Greg
