[scribus] Making holes in an image

[Gregory Pittman]

On 05/14/2012 07:42 AM, Johan Vromans wrote:
> "Owen"<rcook at pcug.org.au>  writes:
>
>> Would this give any clues?
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_fill_a_Scribus_text_with_an_image
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
>
> This approach relies on the shapes to be filled with images. As you can
> read in my reply to a.l.e. this is not feasible in my situation.
>

Either we're not understanding you, or you're not understanding a.l.e -- 
his method is the way to go.

If you combine shapes, you create something like a doughnut, which in 
your case will be a doughnut with a puzzle piece shaped hole, which will 
show any background object through it.

So, start with shapes, select both, then Item > Path Tools > Path 
Operations...  Click through the various choices in Operations to get 
what you want. Then convert your result to an Image frame.

Greg