[Scribus] svg import

[David Christian Berg]

On Do, 2004-10-21 at 14:09 +0200, Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:27, Owen Cook wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, David Christian Berg wrote:
> > > Please, someone just give me an answer to this quite simple question. I
> > > mean many of you must be using this every day.
> > > How's the svg import doing?
> >
> > OK,
> >
> > well I just created a svg with 54% opacity and a coloured gradiet using
> > Inkscape 0.39.
> >
> > I then imported it in Scribus-1.2.1 CVS 14 Oct 2004.
> >
> > It showed the image and it properties revealed that its opacity was 54%
> >
> > I then saved it as a pdf and acrobat-5.0.8 read and rendered it ok
> >
> > xpdf-3.0 (I think) rendered the gradient but not the opacity
> 
> 
> Yes.. transparencies are not yet supported in xpdf and therefore kpdf (which 
> now uses the xpdf 3.0 engine), not in gpdf.

Thanx a lot guys, so with Scribus-1.2.1 I can actually use
transparencies and create a pdf. The fact that xpdf doesn't render it
properly doesn't matter since I need the pdf for people with windoze
anyways.

David