On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 jrm at kw.igs.net wrote:
> Hello. Pursuant to help from this list - thank you very much! - I have > successfully laid out a couple of issues of Chess Canada magazine using > Scribus. Now I am smoothing out some details. > > For diagrams of chess positions, I have been using fonts that come with > a commercial product, ChessBase. The result, more or less, is that a > diagram is a ten-by-ten array of characters to be set in a special font. > Readers are used to having each diagram appear at the appropriate place > within a game, so I do not want to float them. So I have the diagrams > embedded within text. > > What bothers me is how easily diagrams get broken up when I make minor > adjustments. What I would *like* is to apply a "keep with next" property > to every line (but the last) of a diagram. This can be done in Open Office > Writer, but the property is lost when importing into Scribus, at least > with the 1.2.3 versions. Has this changed, or is it likely to? > > Alternatively, perhaps I can somehow make each diagram into a graphic to be > embedded into the text. Probably I'm being very obtuse, but I don't even see > how to embed a graphic. How do I embed a graphic? > > Also, it is not obvious to me what would be a good way to put text into a > graphic. Because this will be a frequent operation, I would want to script > it, to avoid rasterization of the text, and to keep precise control of the > suze of the graphic. Suggestions? > > Incidentally, my PDFs generated with Scribus produce (apparently harmless) > error messages about "xobject not found" when using the ChessBase diagram > fonts. Has anyone else ever seen anything like this? (My guess is that > there is something a little odd with the font, which apparently was getting > by PageMaker but is annoying Scribus.) I don't have an answer to you question, but just bring to your attention the chess pieces in the openclipart library which may be of value to you. ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/yet_another_chess_game_01.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/chesspieces-bishop.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/chesspieces-king.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/chesspieces-knight.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/chesspieces-pawn.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/chesspieces-queen.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/chesspieces-rook.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/tamerlane_chess_jonadab_.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/black_and_white_bishop_r.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/black_and_white_kings_d_r.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/black_and_white_pawns_d_r.svg ./openclipart-0.17-svgonly/clipart/recreation/games/chess/black_and_white_queens_r.svg The yet_another_chess_game_01.svg is maybe all you need, though I'd be processing them in Inkscape. Owen
