[scribus] Render frames

[john Culleton]

On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:37:10 +0100
Geoffrey Heaford <geoffrey.heaford at sky.com> wrote:

> Can someone please tell me what render frames do. Every reference
> seems to refer to Latex.
> 

Render frames are a way to use special facilities, often of another
program or a special plugin.  In Scribus present and immediate future
(1.5.0) it is only an exit to the LaTeX version of TeX. For the needs
of Scribus a pdftex or luatex exit would have made more sense but the
name LaTeX is better known. 

In other programs render frames have a broader application. In
inkscape they cover everything from a 3d-polyhedron to a wire frame
application.

In Gimp the Render list includes clouds, fractals and so on, with
submenus for each.

In short there is no particular magic to the tag "Render" or "Render
frames." It is whatever the designers want to put in that category. 
In Scribus it means an exit to LaTeX, one of several variants to the
TeX typesetting suite. 

-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html