On Sunday 23 September 2007 22:47:25 Louis Desjardins wrote: > Gregory Pittman a ?crit : > > John Beardmore wrote: > >> The first is the ability to embed images within .sla files. At the > >> moment, if I move a document, it seems to loose all the links to > >> pictures as though relative paths were used to locate them. While I > >> accept the principle that a lot of disk space can be saved by referring > >> to pictures elsewhere in the file system, this can be a nuisance when > >> projects are being developed on multiple machines over multiple sites. > >> For me at least, using the .sla files as a container that includes all a > >> documents images would be a huge benefit. > > > > The "answer" to this is to use File > Collect for Output, which will > > keep everything together. Moving things around is generally not so good > > an idea anyway, but Collect for Output allows for some collaborative > > work. I think it would help if Scribus used absolute paths for finding > > images, but it uses relative ones. > > We have discussed on IRC to have this "Collect for Output" function be > activated right from the start ? on the very first "Save" you do on your > document ? so each time you use a font or an image, it gets > automatically copied into the relevant subfolder into the "Collect..." > one. This of course could be made as an option (but activated as the > default settings). > > It doesn't seem to be filed as a RFE so far. Before I do so, any comment > on that idea?
I dont like it - if I want to have my source images (could be hundreds of mb per document, and used across many documents) spread across my network, then thats what I want. If we bring about a new option of zip-compressed collection format, like ODF is, then this might suit. Craig
