<div>I always read mails carefully, John. Whole. I appreciate people are taking time and effort to voluntarily share their knowledge.</div><div> </div>Any not fully WYSIWYG, complex solution will be simply wrong for empowering the audience, so for whole project as well. If this would be other things, its a different story. But here we have to deal with strictly visual features, and, if we will be only "gluing" things together with a piece of software - it would still be Scribus. Just because it is much easier for greenhorns who don't know what typesetting is and want to make their own card.<div>
<br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Luke<br><div><br></div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2011/1/13 John Culleton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john@wexfordpress.com">john@wexfordpress.com</a>></span><br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">On Thursday 13 January 2011 10:49:55 Lukasz Jastrzebski wrote:<br>
> Thanks for your replay :)<br>
><br>
> John, I know what LaTeX can provide quite well. Its a no-go not for<br>
> me personally, but for potential contributors to our project.<br>
<br>
</div>I guess you missed the part where I recommended looking at more<br>
flexible versions of TeX, other than LaTeX.<br>
<br>
One of the virtues of TeX is the \input statement. If you had a master<br>
file or files individual contributions could be added easily,<br>
rearranged, indexed and so on.<br>
<br>
Physical design of the cards could be done in any good drawing<br>
program, including some you have rejected like Inkscape. An Inkscape<br>
drawing can be incorporated into either pdftex or Scribus without much<br>
trouble. Conversion to CMYK can be done in ImageMagick. You already<br>
know the Scribus graphic frame routine, and for pdftex three<br>
statements will do. The first statement can include the width, height<br>
or both. If only one dimension is given the other is adjusted<br>
automatically. Here are the statements for one illo from my e-book:<br>
\pdfximage width 2.0in{f270g.jpg}<br>
\pdfrefximage<br>
\pdflastximage<br>
These are put on separate lines for clarity.<br>
<br>
TeX has a clear advantage in assembling bits and pieces from multiple<br>
authors, and in producing compact pdf files. Or my e-book I chose<br>
pdftex (I would have preferred Scribus) solely on the issue of file<br>
size.<br>
<br>
Scribus has a clear advantage in ease of precise placement of graphics<br>
on a page and in producing varieties of pdf output, particularly if<br>
you use 1.5.0 which will do pdf X/1-a:2001.<br>
<br>
I don't know all the details but those are some thoughts for your<br>
consideration.<br>
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