I didn't say GIMP would make the image look terrible, I said, "*resizing* in GIMP" will. The resizing part is the key, not the GIMP part.
But I get the point about confusion. Snooooooooooooooow!!!!!!! seeyas On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 11:03 AM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote: > hi jeffrey, > >> >> You can and should resize images in Scribus. i.e. Scribus does >> >> provide that feature. Shrinking it in the GIMP will make it look >> >> terrible[1], so don' t do that. > >> Well, *I* know that, but it is easier to say "don't resize" because >> clearly th OP does not know that. No sense in creating additional >> confusion all at once; I prefer to layer the confusion on slowly. > > well, telling the user that gimp will make the picture look terrible is imo > not really a way to avoid confusion... > > in the future, people googling for "scribus gimp" have now some chances to > get their answer from this post... > > > but, yes, you're right: scribus *can* resize the image in the way you > described! > > ciao > a.l.e > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- JDS
