hi > Yesterday I ran into this challenge and I wondered whether this is > possible with Scribus. > > Given a document with a background image. > > The document contains an image frame holding (another) image. > > Scribus provides a bunch of interesting shapes to draw. In this case, I > used one of the jigsaw figures. > > The challenge: cut a hole in the image in the form of the jigsaw figure, > so that the background image is visible though the hole. > > I tried to cut the hole in GIMP, but GIMP doesn't have such nice shapes > as Scribus. I could export the Scribus' jigsaw figure and manipulate it > into a path in GIMP so I can cut it out, but that's a lot of work (and I > have several images and several distinct jogsaw pieces). > > So... can this be done with Scribus? >
yep: create the base shapes, "combine" them using item > path tools > path operations, convert the resulting shape to an image frame, load the image... at the end: i'm not sure that such a layout is a good idea, but technically you can do it :-) have fun a.l.e
