Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Gregory Jefferis jefferis at gmail.com writes: Hello, We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines. Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Greg. http://inkscape.org/ -- Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferislab at gmail.com Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Mukhtar
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll look into that more carefully. But do you know if it can 1) include linked pdfs (ie so that content will update when the external file updates) 2) do so retaining vector elements in the linked PDF (rather than immediately rasterising). Many thanks, Greg.
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Greg, Yes, it links pdf, eps, and other vector formats instead of embedding. I don't remember if it can link svg. It retains vector elements and fonts if you use the option Embed eps pdf files (experimental) while exporting finally to pdf. Best regards, Mukhtar On 14/02/2013 12:18, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll look into that more carefully. But do you know if it can 1) include linked pdfs (ie so that content will update when the external file updates) 2) do so retaining vector elements in the linked PDF (rather than immediately rasterising). Many thanks, Greg. -- Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah, Dept. of Systems Biology Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science University of Rostock 18051 Rostock, Germany http://www.sbi.uni-rostock.de/team/single/dr-mukhtar-ullah/
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Gregory Jefferis jefferis at gmail.com writes: Hello, We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines. Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Greg. http://inkscape.org/ -- Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferislab at gmail.com Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Mukhtar
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll look into that more carefully. But do you know if it can 1) include linked pdfs (ie so that content will update when the external file updates) 2) do so retaining vector elements in the linked PDF (rather than immediately rasterising). Many thanks, Greg.
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Greg, Yes, it links pdf, eps, and other vector formats instead of embedding. I don't remember if it can link svg. It retains vector elements and fonts if you use the option Embed eps pdf files (experimental) while exporting finally to pdf. Best regards, Mukhtar On 14/02/2013 12:18, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll look into that more carefully. But do you know if it can 1) include linked pdfs (ie so that content will update when the external file updates) 2) do so retaining vector elements in the linked PDF (rather than immediately rasterising). Many thanks, Greg. -- Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah, Dept. of Systems Biology Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science University of Rostock 18051 Rostock, Germany http://www.sbi.uni-rostock.de/team/single/dr-mukhtar-ullah/
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Gregory Jefferis gmail.com> writes: > > Hello, > > We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science > manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from > being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file > causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines. > > Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for > annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The > detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always > embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. > > Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, > > Greg. > > http://inkscape.org/ > > -- > Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferislab gmail.com > Division of Neurobiology > MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, > Hills Road, > Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. > > http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis > http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 > http://flybrain.stanford.edu > > Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Mukhtar
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: > Scribus is what you need. > http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll look into that more carefully. But do you know if it can 1) include linked pdfs (ie so that content will update when the external file updates) 2) do so retaining vector elements in the linked PDF (rather than immediately rasterising). Many thanks, Greg.
Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Greg, Yes, it links pdf, eps, and other vector formats instead of embedding. I don't remember if it can link svg. It retains vector elements and fonts if you use the option "Embed eps & pdf files (experimental)" while exporting finally to pdf. Best regards, Mukhtar On 14/02/2013 12:18, Gregory Jefferis wrote: On 14 Feb 2013, at 09:58, Mukhtar Ullah wrote: Scribus is what you need. http://scribus.net/canvas/Scribus Thanks a lot for the suggestion, I'll look into that more carefully. But do you know if it can 1) include linked pdfs (ie so that content will update when the external file updates) 2) do so retaining vector elements in the linked PDF (rather than immediately rasterising). Many thanks, Greg. -- Dr. Ing. Mukhtar Ullah, Dept. of Systems Biology & Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science University of Rostock 18051 Rostock, Germany http://www.sbi.uni-rostock.de/team/single/dr-mukhtar-ullah/
OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Hello, We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines. Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Greg. http://inkscape.org/ -- Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferis...@gmail.com Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu
OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Hello, We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines. Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Greg. http://inkscape.org/ -- Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferis...@gmail.com Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu
OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure
Hello, We currently used Adobe Illustrator to construct quite complex figures for Biological Science manuscripts. We save in PDF compatible format and then directly place these in my lyx document. Apart from being expensive, the main problem is that Illustrator always saves the absolute path to any linked file causing trouble when colleagues edit these files on different machines. Our figures mostly consist of linked PDFs, some type e.g. for labels and a small amount of drawing for annotation. I would like to switch to a FOSS alternative that allows PDFs to be linked (not embedded). The detailed layout of the elements is important. The closest I have found so far is Inkscape, but this always embeds PDF on import. Likewise it does not yet seem to be able to support linked SVG files. Would anyone have any suggestions? Many thanks, Greg. http://inkscape.org/ -- Gregory Jefferis Lab: jefferis...@gmail.com Division of Neurobiology MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Hills Road, Cambridge, CB2 0QH, UK. http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/g-jefferis http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?gsxej2 http://flybrain.stanford.edu
