On Monday 21 February 2005 17:03, Tariq Rashid wrote: > hi, > > its that ols chestnut of a question that's best answered by through > experience. > > I'm creating my original designs (logos, page decoration, page elements) in > CorelDraw 11 (updates will all current updates, sp1, sp2, svg filter). > > I can export from CorelDraw into various formats such as eps and svg. > > However - I have limited success in importing the results into scribus. EPS > works fine - except the imported colours are visibly deviated from the > Corel colours (corel->png preserves the colours). Also the imported EPS > seems to converted to bitmap? this sounds strange but if you zoom in on the > final scribus->pdf pdf file you'll see the pixels. some images have a low > pixel resolution. > > other problems with eps include mangled text. exporting from corel with > "text to curves" does help but if i move the image about the scribus page > the reuslting characters get mangled. > > so i tried svg. disaster! invisible components. no colors. one black > component! yuk! > > so i tried an intermediary ... inkscape... import eps to inkscape... export > as svg... this improves the situation vut the colours are wrong again! > > > Does anyone have a good "process" for moving vector images from Corel to > Scribus with minimal damage! > > Crazy - i experenced the same issues back in the days of windows 3.1 and > the apps that were around then .. wmf, dxf .. > > someone suggested using the inkscape "export as plain svg" - i didn't > notice the option - is tis likely? > > by the way - congratulations on an excellent product - Scribus is a joy to > use! and fills on the gaps that kept me using windows.... inkscape is > coming along very well too! soon i won't need to use Corel! > > i use scribus from mandrake 10.1 official - which i guess pulls in the > littlecms as a dependency? > > tariq > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
If the EPS/SVG can be shared legally, please send us a few that have problems on import so we can improve the importers (or see if theres bugs in the EPS/SVGs!). Craig -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20050221/d62a0d8a/attachment.pgp
