kevin thurston wrote: > i have recently decided to ditch my adobe applications in favor of open > source programs, anyway > > i have a bunch of graphics that i made into b&w TIFFs with clipping paths > when i was using photoshop and indesign >
Which versions of PS and ID ? > i am starting to place these elements in my scribus document and i found the > "extended image properties" box and while in paths it admits i have one, and > when i click on it it activates the path, it wont let me keep the patch > active, in fact it insists i click the "don't use any path" button on the > paths section of the extended image properties box > > does scribus recognize, but not support paths? that doesnt seem logical to > me, and i've found on-line people talking about dropping in/making > transparent background PNGs, but as TIFFs are the standard in printing (and > i have all of these graphics already manipulated) i am wondering if i am > simply missing something? > > thanks, > > kevin > -------------- next part -------------- > You did not mention which platform or version of Scribus you are using. 1.3.4+ has about the best support for PSD and many types of tiff in the open source world. A lot of work went in to supporting some of the more esoteric features available in TIFF and PSD based on publicly available documentation - which in some cases is incomplete and/or wrong. That said, B&W are a special case. It might be helpful if we had more info about your setup and possibly some samples to test. A visit to our IRC channel might be helpful to resolve this more quickly. Hope that helps. Peter
