[scribus] Recommended way of using an Inkscape .svg in Scribus

[Jeffrey Silverman]

I've had good success using Inkscape SVG imported into Scribus. My
images aren't all that big or complex, but I do rely on transpareny,
semi-trasnparency, and opaque-to-transparent gradients.

One thing to note: the OSS PDF libs used by "typical" PDF clients
(ghostscript, gpdf, evince, kpdf, etc.) on Linux desktop environments
do not display the resulting PDFs quite right. (They are getting
better). Transparency and gradients in the SVG are the biggest
offenders.

HOEWVER, Adobe Reader displays the resulting PDFs like a champ.

Definitely better to use the vector images whenever possible!

later...

On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Cédric Gémy <radar.map35 at free.fr> wrote:
> The best way ?
>
> i wouldn't say so. When vectors can be kept, keep vectors. But Scribus
> is far from implementing all what inkscape does and in that case, PNG is
> the best.
>
> Sometimes, i deal with several export; For example if i have text in my
> inkscape doc and that i want to keep it. So i export separately the text
> and other objects.
> Generally, basic shapes and colours are OK. When you beginning working
> with effects or transparencies (blend modes...) just turn to PNG.
> Read docs, i can remember SVG compliance is described.
>
> pygmee
>
> Le vendredi 12 septembre 2008 à 21:01 +0200, Philipp Klaus Krause a
> écrit :
>> Is exporting as .png and using it as an image the best way?
>>
>> I've created a .svg in Inkscape, but it uses filters, which are not
>> supported by Scribus (The flames that should come out of the spaceship's
>> engines are just a black rectangles when I directly import the .svg into
>> Scribus).
>>
>> Philipp
>>
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