[Scribus] wmf export in scribus

Gregory Pittman gpittman
Sat Nov 17 19:18:18 CET 2007


Robin Haunschild wrote:
> Well, more or less only use Scribus to create nice figures. If I write 
> something privately, I export them from Scribus to LaTeX but 
> unfortunally, my boss refuses to use LaTeX. He is used to work with 
> Word and does not want to change this habit. Therefore, everything he 
> wants to have digitally I have to provide in a Word-Doc format. 
> However, MS-Word and OpenOffice need a huge amount of resources after 
> importing 10 eps figures. Although eps and wmf are vector graphics, I 
> didn't find such behaviour for wmf files. Anyway my (ugly) workaround 
> now is to create figures in Scribus, exporting them as eps, renaming 
> them, importing them into Corel Draw and finally exporting them as wmf 
> files. The last step is obviously the nastiest one. ;)
> It would be much easier to directly export figures from Scribus in eps 
> and wmf format (for my and my bosses use). ;)
>   
Obviously kludgy...

One of the challenges of the working world -- showing your boss you're 
smarter than he is without telling him you're smarter than he is.

Good luck.

Greg



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