-----Forwarded Message----- From: Tarax <tarax.mdk@...118...> To: sodipodi-list@lists.sourceforge.net, scribus <scribus@...119...> Subject: [Sodipodi-list] First sodipodi+scribus doc experience Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 15:00:25 +0100

Hi yall,

First let me tell you that it is a REAL GREAT PLEASURE to use these two wonderfull softs together :-))) Using sodipodi (0.33) for a little while now, yesterday I created my first document with Scribus (1.1.4cvs, build id 29.11.03) importing svg drawings. Actually this was a business card to be laid down on paper by a professional printing company. At the end of the day I felt quite well with scribus and the PDF (with transparency) was validated by the "printer"... JOY ! ;-)

Nevertheless, I encountered few issues... First, importing in scribus from a sodipodi svg: - path width and shape stroke is abnormaly fat, but reducing it to 0 then resetting the proper thickness works well - line breaks in text elements disapear in scribus and bitstream vera sans bold italic becomes bitstream vera sans roman - it would be great to be able to open/create a new scribus document straight from an svg one, thus setting automaticaly the document size (and in future evolutions with svg print support, multi pages documents...:-) size and proportion doesn't seem to be very stable (50x64mm object -> 71x84mm)

"Cleaning" up the doc then exporting it back in svg with scribus and opening this last file in sodipodi: - the path which hadrounded ends has now square ends. Resetting the proper choice is ok. - 91x61mm doc with 2mm margins => 72.8x48.8mm svg doc in sodipodi - texts are exported in one text element but, in it, a tspan is created for each character, which is not very handy to work with then :-S

Finally, it would be great if guides could be kept from one soft to the other and back.

These are few things I have noticed... I'll certainly be more accurate in my comments as I'll experiment further...

Anyway, many thanks again

Tarax

PS: little OT, I have fonts available in sodipodi which aren't in scribus, could someone give me few advices about that problem ?