[Scribus] Clipping path

Owen Cook rcook
Mon Aug 15 10:17:49 CEST 2005


On Mon, 15 Aug 2005, Ranjan Ghosh wrote:

> Some of my TIFFs contain clipping paths which are not properly supported by 
> Scribus. I wonder if this is a bug which I should file or a current 
> limitation. I dont want to file too many unnecessary bug reports that only
> cause work for scribus devs if they are closed again.
> ImageMagick's identify-tool reports this clipping path:
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
> <svg width="2318" height="870">
> <g>
> <path 
> style="fill:#00000000;stroke:#00000000;stroke-width:0;stroke-antialiasing:false" 
> d="
> M 52.0001,458
> L 188,88
> C 188,88 1532,100 2018,84
> C 2018,86 2254,460 2254,460
> L 2274,512
> C 2274,512 2290.39,607.997 2256.5,765.951
> C 2255.25,764.697 56.4753,768.458 56.4753,768.458
> C 56.4753,768.458 46.4353,772.219 45.1803,742.133
> C 46.4353,742.133 31.3751,575.403 38.9052,508.963
> C 38.9052,513.977 52.0001,458 52.0001,458 Z
> "/>
> </g>
> </svg>
> 
> Scribus shows only a triangle.
> Is this because "C" (Curve?)-Statements are currently not supported or is 
> there some other problem?



Where do the TIFFs come from?

I opened the svg and Inkscape (0.42) and imported into Scribus-1.3.1 and
both objects looked the same and definitely not a triangle.


Owen





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