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
