Re: [Sodipodi-list] Re: ps output issues

[Peter L. <scr...@at...>]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 02:18, Bryce Harrington wrote: 
> On 4 Oct 2003, Peter Linnell wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > My first post to the list. I am on the Scribus team and use Sodipodi
> > pretty much daily now. Scribus 1.1.0 now has a basic SVG importer, which
> > can import about 75% of the W3C SVG test suite. I see both projects
> > complementing each other, as they are under active development with a
> > core of committed users and developers.
> 
> Cool, welcome aboard.
> 
> > You would be much better served by SVG > SVG import to Scribus and
> > export via Scribus. ps2pdf is fine for exporting a text doc, but without
> > a lot of command line tweaks, you will be disappointed, especially if
> > print is your target. The GS folks will acknowledge ps2pdf weaknesses
> > and have made lots of improvements since 7.05+.
> 
> Peter, would you be willing to write a little HOWTO on this process?
> We've seen a number of questions related to how to get SVG rendered to
> PDF, and I think a lot of people could benefit from some kind of guide.
> Sounds like you've got experience in doing this so would be the right
> man for the job.

Sure will, you can start to get an idea about Scribus and SVG in the
on-line docs which are slighly behind now. I'll be adding some notes
about a nice workaround how I used pstoedit and sodipodi to get the
Scribus logo into native SVG, as well as importing an Indesign PDF of a
table.

At the moment, I am saving all SVG as "plain" SVG and finding few issues
with importing into Scribus. Now the import support cannot handle all
the SVG features of Sodipodi, but it is improving. Franz Schmid, the
main developer and I see good things coming from SVG, even if not every
app in the supports the standard.

> 
> Looks like the URL is http://web2.altmuehlnet.de/fschmid/ ?

Canonical home page is www.scribus.org.uk with lots of mirrors.
> 
> I also found some screenshots at
> http://home.comcast.net/~scribusdocs/scriscreen.html

Older version and will be updated soon. 1.1.0+ has superb screen
rendering with the addition of libart_lgpl, so SVG looks exactly the
same in Sodipodi and Scribus. The new screen shots will also be on the
www.scribus.org.uk site in a few days. 

There is anoncvs and almost always CVS is buildable and pretty stable
for CVS, I pretty much run the most current CVS all the time. We also
have a friendly and active mailing list for expert and newbie alike.

Cheers,
Peter