> Yesterday I ran into this challenge and I wondered whether this is > possible with Scribus. > > Given a document with a background image. > > The document contains an image frame holding (another) image. > > Scribus provides a bunch of interesting shapes to draw. In this case, > I > used one of the jigsaw figures. > > The challenge: cut a hole in the image in the form of the jigsaw > figure, > so that the background image is visible though the hole. > > I tried to cut the hole in GIMP, but GIMP doesn't have such nice > shapes > as Scribus. I could export the Scribus' jigsaw figure and manipulate > it > into a path in GIMP so I can cut it out, but that's a lot of work (and > I > have several images and several distinct jogsaw pieces). > > So... can this be done with Scribus? > > An example (done with GIMP and a much simpler shape) can be found on > http://www.squirrel.nl/pub/xfer/uploads/3C_Fa3_Tt9_DLSB0NjNwZ8ew.png
Would this give any clues? http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_fill_a_Scribus_text_with_an_image -- Owen
