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Re: [LUG] OSS DTP ... (ie. Publisher looka-a-likes)

 

Gordon Henderson wrote:

It's not that Scribus (probably) can't do what she wants it to do, is
more that what she wants isn't a full-blown DTP, it's just something to
produce a page or 2 of mixed text and graphics - e.g. one thing she
wanted to do recently was to make an image transparent to place on top
of some text - she spent an hour trying to work out how to do this, and
failled. If the solution is to export it into GIMP, then use some voodoo
to make it transparent, then re-import it into Scribus, then it's a fail
for her, as it's a simple couple of clicks in Publisher.

I am no expert in Scribus but I saw this in a tutorial the other day. To make an image transparent you need it to be in the png format. Jpeg cannot do it. So the recommendation was that any images that you wish to use in Scribus should be in the png format in case you need transparency.

And yes you do need the Gimp to prepare the images. But it is easy to link that to Scribus as you are working on a page.

Neil

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