* right... well, that is more or less what I have been doing, in lieu of having a vector file, and it is certainly good enough for many uses.
BTW - I took a look at your web pages... wow... nice art ! I'm assuming it is your own ? On 8/1/06, frank gaude' <tanzen at sbcglobal.net> wrote: > stu seven wrote: > > + A long time user of Inkscape, I recently started looking at > > XaraLX - recently GPLd, and now in it's 7th release... it is becoming > > an excellent drawing choice. > > > > Here's my first question... somewhere I've read that Scribus planned > > to include *.xar file import... I have, I believe, the very newest > > release > > of Scribus (1.3.1 NG), but have not seen *.xar import.... is this still a > > planned feature ? > > > > XaraLX itself plans to include SVG and PDF export (not yet > > implemented), so, one way or the other there should soon be a way > > to use xar files in Scribus documents directly. > > Question two - In the meantime, has anybody seen anything which > > can convert xar to something Scribus can import ? > > > > thanks > > > Xara LX will soon, in my opinion, be the drawing program of choice, period. > > I use Scribus and the developers did say they plan on being able to > import .xra files one of these days. In the meantime, we can export an > .xra file into a big .png or .jpg and import it into Scribus. Depending > on what you plan on doing with the Scribus file, web or print, the > bitmap can be sized to not show any artifacts, pixels. In Scribus just > resize to what you need. I export 1600 by 1200 pixel Xara files as .jpg > files all the time. Works like a charm. You can find some of my work, if > you will, at site: > > http://yantrayoga.typepad.com/noname > > I use JPG more than PNG because for the web I know I can compress a file > down without it being noticed. > > Hang in there, for Xara LX is the killer app for Linux and FOSS. > > frank > > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
