[Scribus] Fwd: import scalable... anything... into Scribus ?

[stu seven]

+  lol... of course, I meant 24kb and not 24,000kb...
and, to Julian - yep... problem solved.  SVG and Scribus
are fine... especially nice for line graphs.  Cant wait
to try the latest release.

On 11/14/07, stu seven <stu7seven at gmail.com> wrote:
> +    my thanks rcook, for your reply, and to other repliers also...
> yes, it seems the "error" is mine completely - that is, for trying to
> import such a huge SVG... the one I ended up with was nearly
> 1MB... actually, what was happening was, the scribus engine was
> just spinning and spinning and... well, so on(!)... with the import
> never finishing.
> Solution:  optimizing the SVG reduced it to 24,000 kb... tiny...
> and it loaded immediately into Scribus... Wa-la ! (thats french).
> So, indeed, Scribus and SVG are a happy team, so long as you
> dont overload it.
>
>     Thanks again for the replies, and thanks to Scribus for such
> a nice DTP !
>
>
> On 11/13/07, rcook at pcug.org.au <rcook at pcug.org.au> wrote:
> > > +    I know, in principle, Scribus allows SVGs to be imported...
> > > for me, this seems to work only with very small SVGs.
> > >
> > >     Scribus also seems to optimize it's PDF output... which
> > > should be good... except that, when I put a PDF-d image in
> > > the scribus document, it ruins it... re-optimizes it... sort of
> > > like drinking your soda twice(?).
> > >
> > >     So here is my question... is anyone having success
> > > including SVGs, or, other scalable format files in scribus
> > > documents ?
> >
> >
> >
> > I just wonder where your difficulty may be. What symptoms show when you
> > try to import a "large" svg?
> >
> > Would this be on windows or a mac or a linux box? What version of Scribus
> > are you using?
> >
> >
> >
> > Owen
> >
> >
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