On Tuesday 27 October 2009 08:06:35 K.King wrote: > Hi "a.l.e." & "Christoph" > > Thankyou for your kind and gentle responses. > > a.l.e. re > << > well, it's a pity that publisher doesn't set the standard for scribus :-) > > > no it's not a pity. But the example I gave was the simplest way (for me) > to express it, sorry to irritate or offend. > > > a.l.e. re > << > the best way to do it, is to create the frame in inkscape, with the > correct size, export it to svg and import it in scribus. > > > Thanks, I could do that, but it does make the task far more convoluted > and cumbersome compared to how it can be done in another application > that we dare not mention here. I am looking to try and get multiple > clients to let go of a certain application and anything they can do in > it they obviously expect to be able to do in another and without too > much extra effort. > > K
Exporting as svg is the normal way one gets images out of Inkscape. How is this difficult? It is of course possible to save an image as a bitmap but that would be a step backward. Gimp can be used for bitmaps. The virtue of Inkscape is that it, like Illustrator, deals in vector graphics. Resizing/rotating a vector graphic in Inkscape is perhaps the second thing you learn to do in that product, right after drawing a rectangle. Please do mention the other application. If it is InDesign, currently the industry standard, then that is one thing, if it is Microsoft Publisher then that is quite another. Most printers won't accept Microsoft Publisher files and indeed I don't believe Microsoft offers it any more. I do not find importing images into Scribus difficult at all. You can size the graphic to a fram or size a frame to a graphic The only gotcha is that an eps file such as a bar code file needs to be imported via the file menu and not through the more usual properties menu in a graphic frame. The eps file will create its own graphic frame. The product you are accustomed to will be the product you measure others against. Right now the graphical DTP program I am accustomed to is Scribus. Even the bleeding edge 1.5.0 product seems natural and intuitive to me. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
