[Scribus] replace png with pdf

Aaron aamehl
Wed Sep 21 00:23:16 CEST 2005


I verified that this is an issue with how lilypond makes svgs, they also
suggested saving it as in inkscape.

but I am using pdf in the mean time.

Aaron

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 14:52 -0400, BandiPat wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 12:15:35 +0300
> Aaron <aamehl at actcom.net.il> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 18:41 +1000, Owen Cook wrote:
> > > On Tue, 20 Sep 2005, Aaron wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hi all,
> > > > I created a book design with png graphics which I now want to
> > > > replace with pdf graphics. 
> > > > 
> > > > Is there an automated way of doing this that will preserve the
> > > > size of the graphics frame as well.
> > > > 
> > > > Again the only difference in file names is .png .pdf
> > > 
> > > 
> > > First of all, pdf is not a graphic format (like png, tiff or jpg)
> > > 
> > > So just what is it you want to do?
> > > 
> > > If you have made a book cover in Scribus using graphics with a png
> > > extension, you can then do a number of things
> > > 
> > > File->Export as an image, this will be a png image   OR
> > > File->Export as a pdf, this will be in pdf format viewable by
> > > Acrobat
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Or do you have some other scheme?
> > 
> > 
> > another scheme I am adding music notation generated by lilypond and
> > had used pngs but they were low resolution.
> > 
> > I substituted the pdfs which look so much better.
> > 
> > I really want to use svg but it appears scribus doesn't support the
> > svg files from lilypond, it appears to be an issue of how they
> > implement the svg standard.
> > 
> > Aaron
> ==========
> 
> Aaron,
> Did you try bringing the Lilypond svg graphics into Inkscape to verify
> the format is good?  Possibly you could resave them from Inkscape under
> another name, as svg, then use them in your document?  A little round
> about way, but should work.
> 
> Also, unless something has changed since I was last here, Scribus uses
> svg files quite well, I believe?
> 
> end of line
> Patrick





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