Yes, all are my own. If the photo or drawing or words are not mine I give credit. I'm a retired graphic designer, photographer, all Nixon since 1956.
frank stu seven wrote: > * 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 >> ara 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. >>
