[Scribus] Importing Coreldraw9 created eps files not too successful ..

[Julian Robbins]

Hi everyone

This is my first post to your list so treat me gently ...

I have been following Scribus for a while, indeed I used 0.7 a while 
back for some small posters.

I am looking to use Scribus via an nx server to several users at my 
company. So far so good. But we have a mish mash of document formats to 
import into Scribus.

The hardest ones may be my Coreldraw 9 files. I have created eps files 
from CorelDraw and imported them into Scribus with varying degrees of 
success. There are many different switches possible in Coreldraw for eps 
creation, I really do not know which ones are important for most 
successful importation into Scribus.

I am using Ubuntu 4.1, Scribus 1.2.1CVS Oct 2004, and  Ghostscript AFPL 
8.14 and littlecms 1.12

The best results I get show text, but never any bitmap images. The rest 
of the layout, ie lines etc are fine, but whenever I get text imported, 
the text is always created as a series of shapes not as editable text. 
Coreldraw's eps export has an option to export as text or as curves but 
this seems to make no difference.

I really want to make this work, but at the least need editable text 
before this will be a semi- satisfactory system. Scribus itself is fine 
for me, but I really need some means to import these Coreldraw files !!

Any help or advise welcomed ;-)

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Best Regards,
Julian Robbins

Applications Engineer
julian.robbins at q-par.com