[Scribus] imports

Craig Ringer craig
Tue Nov 4 07:28:25 CET 2003


> One reason for the ubiquity of EPS files in DTP is there is another DTP
> application which historically had poor support for TIFF and other
> bitmap image files, but does have good support for EPS import. So, many
> DTP users habitually create EPS files from bitmap images from Photoshop
> or others. 

It's also still useful when you need a clipping path embedded in an 
image. We use EPS images a LOT here for that reason. Does TIFF support 
embedded clipping paths? I expect that Quark wouldn't be able to use it 
even if the file format did support it, of course :-(

Craig Ringer




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