Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
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

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Gregory Jefferis
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)

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
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

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
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

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Gregory Jefferis
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)

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
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

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
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

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Gregory Jefferis
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

Re: OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-14 Thread Mukhtar Ullah
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,

OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Jefferis
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

OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Jefferis
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

OTish: Illustrator alternative to collect linked PDFs into single figure

2013-02-13 Thread Gregory Jefferis
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