[scribus] Recommended way of using an Inkscape .svg in Scribus

[Jeffrey Silverman]

oh! One more thing: OUTLINE TEXT! Make sure your SVG image has
converted all text to outlines before importing into Scribus.

later..

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Jeffrey Silverman
<jeffrey.d.silverman at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've had good success using Inkscape SVG imported into Scribus. My
> images aren't all that big or complex, but I do rely on transpareny,
> semi-trasnparency, and opaque-to-transparent gradients.
>
> One thing to note: the OSS PDF libs used by "typical" PDF clients
> (ghostscript, gpdf, evince, kpdf, etc.) on Linux desktop environments
> do not display the resulting PDFs quite right. (They are getting
> better). Transparency and gradients in the SVG are the biggest
> offenders.
>
> HOEWVER, Adobe Reader displays the resulting PDFs like a champ.
>
> Definitely better to use the vector images whenever possible!
>
> later...
>
> On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM, C?dric G?my <radar.map35 at free.fr> wrote:
>> The best way ?
>>
>> i wouldn't say so. When vectors can be kept, keep vectors. But Scribus
>> is far from implementing all what inkscape does and in that case, PNG is
>> the best.
>>
>> Sometimes, i deal with several export; For example if i have text in my
>> inkscape doc and that i want to keep it. So i export separately the text
>> and other objects.
>> Generally, basic shapes and colours are OK. When you beginning working
>> with effects or transparencies (blend modes...) just turn to PNG.
>> Read docs, i can remember SVG compliance is described.
>>
>> pygmee
>>
>> Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 ? 21:01 +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause a
>> ?crit :
>>> Is exporting as .png and using it as an image the best way?
>>>
>>> I've created a .svg in Inkscape, but it uses filters, which are not
>>> supported by Scribus (The flames that should come out of the spaceship's
>>> engines are just a black rectangles when I directly import the .svg into
>>> Scribus).
>>>
>>> Philipp
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