[Scribus] suggestions

[Patrick Ley]

hello list,

i would like to make some suggestions, too.


1)
according to all the import-filter-wishes (quark, pagemaker, indesign) i would 
like to add corel-draw and adobe-illustrator-files and 
macromedia-freehand-files to those, which are also worth to think about as 
well....

maybe - to avoid a too much fragmented discussion on the 
import-export-certain-file-types - it could be useful to discuss this with a 
single "thread"

there could firstly all wishes for supported file-types be collected, then in 
a second step be disccussed form several point of views (and maybe voted?) 
and then become part of a todo-list or let's better say a list of "wishes for 
certain file-types to be supported"

what do the other listies think about this?


2)
according to all the other dtp-proggis i'm using over the past years, there 
where always some options integrated in those programs to handle the so 
called "bleed-limit" of pages. 

i didn't find a similar function in scribus - so i think the workaorund for a 
while will be to make the page-size increase on the amount of the bleed-limit 
i would like to have, and then adding "borders" for my pages.....
...but as far as i know it from many other commercial (so called 
professional-dtp-software)  programs, it is handled like this:

the page is setup and displayed the size it will be after being printed and 
being cut. so you let all objects in your layout "hang out" a little over the 
page-edge. when publishing/exporting/printing/making films of it, you tell in 
some dialog-boxes your proggi how many millimeters this bleed limit is (in 
most cases something between 1 and 5 mm) and the proggi prepares the 
outhanded data with an increase at the edges with these given amount.

is a similiar function planned for scribus or will it be like i described it 
in my supposed "workaround" for it?



best regards,

Patrick


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