[scribus] question

[Gregory Pittman]

On 08/23/2013 08:30 AM, Thorsten Rochelmeyer wrote:
>
> Am 23.08.2013 13:22, schrieb Hans Schmidt:
>> But in some cases, storing everything in one file is really quite
>> comfortable. For example, if you want to just save documents on the
>> disk, it is easier to navigate with them with single files than with
>> folders.
> There's "Collect for output" in the File menu. No document at hand to
> see what it does, but it looks as if it creates a directory and puts all
> the stuff in there.
>
> Anyway, i would appreciate the option to have everything stored in one
> file. Easyer to handle in some cases.
>
>
Something that could be done would be to create a .zip file from a 
directory and its contents, and you could do this yourself. This is in 
essence what an ePub is. It might be worth a consideration for Scribus 
to have the capability of unzipping such a file. It can gzip an .sla 
file. Perhaps a 2-step process of Collect for Output, then zip. I wonder 
if a script might be written to do this zipping....

The problem with saving images in .sla files is the size. You might have 
a multi-MB file for one picture, and some Scribus projects have dozens 
or hundreds of pictures.

Greg