[scribus] SVG Graphics and Scribus.

[john Culleton]

On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 09:31:27 -0500
wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote:

> I am working with a Scribus 1.4 and on a Windows XP computer.
> 
> I find that SVG files inserted into a document seems to drain my 
> computer___s resources, after re sizing a graphic I have to wait a few 
> moments. For example I placed an SVG graphic onto a page and resized
> it to the page I had to wait some 2 minutes before I can go on. The
> whole document is 120 pages.
> 
> It seems a shame to convert and SVG graphic to a bitmap when in SVG 
> format I can get a much better quality. That is what I fined myself 
> doing these days.
> 
> Can I make an sla file from such a graphic and then past or import it 
> later into place in such a document as I have mentioned above.
> 
> Wena
> 
> ___
> 


From Inkscape you can save any svg file as eps or even pdf. It is
still in vector format.I just loaded an eps file in a second or
two. 

It may be a Windows peculiarity.   
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