[scribus] Saving pictures from clipboard

[Owen]

On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 12:14:41 +0200
"a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:

> hi
> > On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:42:49 +0200
> > Christian Pernot <christian.p at maps-system.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> I've just made a test, pasting an image in scribus and editing the
> >> corresponding .sla
> >> Here's what I found in it :
> >>
> >> ... isInlineImage="1" inlineImageExt="png"
> >> ImageData="AAgAYnicdLsFVBzL2rYdzwQIEjS4BXd3gru7B3d3D+4Q3CFAcAvuEFwGd3cJDMPgLl9n73X22Wf9/9trGKnu6a6ueup+rrtqCJOXFXsPhw337Nmz9xLiworPniHMPnv2igP0Aig5TiPXA15eOgpKK...
> >>
> >> So Rolf seems to be right :)
> >
> >>>>
> >>>> 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 :-)
> >
> >
> > OK, I apologise, you are correct.
> >
> > Drag from the file manager and drop into Scribus, simply provides a
> > relative link to the image in the sla file
> >
> > But copying from gimp into the clipboard and then pasting into
> > Scribus from the clipboard does indeed provide that
> > isInlineImage="1" inlineImageExt="png" ImageData ..  entry
> >
> > Makes for a huge sla file, but nonetheless works.
> >
> > Live and learn
> >
> >
> 
> this is an official feature in 1.5.0svn (that is, you have an entry
> in the context menu that makes an image included in the .sla)
> 
> imo, a "bad feature"*, but nonetheless a feature!


Well my test was in 1.4.3. Probably been there forever




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Owen