[scribus] Saving pictures from clipboard

[a.l.e]

hi
> On Tue, 10 Sep 2013 11:42:49 +0200
> Christian Pernot <christian.p at maps-system.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've just made a test, pasting an image in scribus and editing the
>> corresponding .sla
>> Here's what I found in it :
>>
>> ... isInlineImage="1" inlineImageExt="png"
>> ImageData="AAgAYnicdLsFVBzL2rYdzwQIEjS4BXd3gru7B3d3D+4Q3CFAcAvuEFwGd3cJDMPgLl9n73X22Wf9/9trGKnu6a6ueup+rrtqCJOXFXsPhw337Nmz9xLiworPniHMPnv2igP0Aig5TiPXA15eOgpKK...
>>
>> So Rolf seems to be right :)
>
>>>>
>>>> But where are they stored then? I pushed the .sla to Dropbox and
>>>> copied it into another folder on my office computer, and the
>>>> pictures are still there.
>>>>
>>>> On my laptop they existed - in that form - only as unstored
>>>> working copies in the Gimp before, were copied into the clipboard
>>>> and then inserted into the Scribus document.
>>>
>>>
>>> Would it be possible that you already had the images in the same
>>> relative directory on your office computer?
>>>
>>> Otherwise black magic is at work :-)
>
>
> OK, I apologise, you are correct.
>
> Drag from the file manager and drop into Scribus, simply provides a
> relative link to the image in the sla file
>
> But copying from gimp into the clipboard and then pasting into Scribus
> from the clipboard does indeed provide that isInlineImage="1"
> inlineImageExt="png" ImageData ..  entry
>
> Makes for a huge sla file, but nonetheless works.
>
> Live and learn
>
>

this is an official feature in 1.5.0svn (that is, you have an entry in 
the context menu that makes an image included in the .sla)

imo, a "bad feature"*, but nonetheless a feature!

ciao
a.l.e


* trying to avoid the usual shitstorm: getting the image to follow the 
.sla is a good idea, but including the image in the xml is imo a bad 
implementation of that idea.