[scribus-dev] SVG support

NASA Jeff tallboy258 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 12 23:55:14 UTC 2020


ok i'll check it out.

On Thu, 12 Nov 2020 at 22:44, Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:
>
> Hi Jeff
>
> We’ve replied in IRC….
>
> Craig
>
> > On 12 Nov 2020, at 11:35 pm, NASA Jeff <tallboy258 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It's a bit quit on IRC, so I thought I'd email. For your views.
> >
> > What's the current state of play for SVG support in Scribus? I'm
> > asking because the topic was raised in the Inkscape developers meeting
> > today.
> >
> > My summary, as good as I can manage, was as follows:
> >
> > Scribus currently supports rich vector and bitmap graphics, enough for
> > the majority of the requirements for SVG, especially shapes and clip
> > art etc.. but not to the extent of supporting filters.
> >
> > Text may be handled a little differently in Scribus, formatted text
> > frames as opposed to an ad-hoc text layout.
> >
> > Support for importing and exporting documents in Scribus is cumbersome
> > and error prone, as discussed with ale, Scribus could really do with a
> > fresh modernized modular file format, a bit like SVG. That would in
> > turn make it easier to import and export documents into scribus that
> > are in other formats.
> >
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