[scribus] Saving pictures from clipboard

[Owen]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 10:54:35 +0200
Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de> wrote:

> 
> 
> Am 09.09.2013 13:47, schrieb Gregory Pittman:
> > On 09/09/2013 05:18 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> >> We had a thread about what way might be most sensible to store .sla
> >> files and related files in. Scribus doesn't save pictures within
> >> its .sla but only the relative paths to them.
> >>
> >> Over the weekend I stumbled over this one: When I insert a picture
> >> from the clipboard, it seems Scribus does save it within its .sla.
> >> I had a document with some test pictures which came over the
> >> clipboard into some image frames, and they still appear when I
> >> re-open it ;-)
> >>
> >> Am I right?
> >>
> >> Rolf
> >>
> >> P. S. the documentation doesn't say anything about this, or did I
> >> miss the link?
> >
> > I think you missed something, because there isn't any way for
> > Scribus to save image data in the file.
> >
> > Greg
> >
> 
> 
> But where are they stored then? I pushed the .sla to Dropbox and
> copied it into another folder on my office computer, and the pictures
> are still there.
> 
> On my laptop they existed - in that form - only as unstored working 
> copies in the Gimp before, were copied into the clipboard and then 
> inserted into the Scribus document.



Would it be possible that you already had the images in the same
relative directory on your office computer?

Otherwise black magic is at work :-)




-- 
Owen


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