Craig Ringer wrote: > Timothy Boyden wrote: > >> I would like to see Scribus move to using an implementation of SVG as >> it's file format and I think there a lot of good reasons for doing so - >> industry support, extensibility, numerous applications to manipulate it, >> it's fully documented, etc... >> > Rather than basically rewriting Scribus to use SVG, I suspect it'd be > much more practical to extend Inkscape with DTP features. There's > already a little movement in that direction with things like work on ICC > based colour support. I'm pretty sure it'd be a vastly smaller and more > practical job - at only truly huge instead of nigh-impossible. > I've put a little request into the GSoC page on the wiki, perhaps enough to see if there might be interest.
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Summer_of_code#Advancing_SVG_Capabilities I think the problem with expecting Inkscape to go in a satisfying DTP direction is that they're coming from a very different position, and they still have a number of non-DTP purposes to satisfy. A project could easily get bogged down in their own immensity -- one might as well suggest that Scribus add more sophisticated vector drawing such as Inkscape already has. This having been said, there is always room for closer Scribus-Inkscape collaboration and even areas of overlap. Greg
