[scribus] Render frames

[Alexandre Leray]

Think of the render frame as a dynamic image container. The render 
frame is a special image frame that doesn't read an static image file 
but any image data return ed by the associated command-line/programme. 
So you can set any command line as long as it is returning an image 
format (tif, eps, jpeg, pdf etc.)

BTW... I'm still interested by the idea of "render text frame" as 
discussed earlier on this list... :)

Alex

Le dim. 11 sept. 2011 15:20:05 CEST, john Culleton a écrit :
> On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:37:10 +0100
> Geoffrey Heaford<geoffrey.heaford at sky.com>  wrote:
>
>> Can someone please tell me what render frames do. Every reference
>> seems to refer to Latex.
>>
>
> Render frames are a way to use special facilities, often of another
> program or a special plugin.  In Scribus present and immediate future
> (1.5.0) it is only an exit to the LaTeX version of TeX. For the needs
> of Scribus a pdftex or luatex exit would have made more sense but the
> name LaTeX is better known.
>
> In other programs render frames have a broader application. In
> inkscape they cover everything from a 3d-polyhedron to a wire frame
> application.
>
> In Gimp the Render list includes clouds, fractals and so on, with
> submenus for each.
>
> In short there is no particular magic to the tag "Render" or "Render
> frames." It is whatever the designers want to put in that category.
> In Scribus it means an exit to LaTeX, one of several variants to the
> TeX typesetting suite.
>