Hi Not sure if this will help, but I note Scribus 1.3.3.13 and almost certainly 1.3.5 can import compressed svg files too, ie svgz format. SVG files will be huge but a compressed one will shrink greatly, just like compressing a text file as that's all it is really. Inkscape does export these svgz files too.
I guess the bottleneck is where Scribus is extracting whats in the SVG file, but its worth a try, and wont take long. -- Kind regards Julian Robbins UK
