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berteh
Link vector/SVG files with Generator
Scribus Generator does not work with SVG/Vector files beside Image Frame. I can not use Image Frame as it creates much much bigger PDFs. Is this possible to implement or this is thing on Scribus side of development?
Hello @SreckoM
Unfortunately Scribus does a heavy conversion job when importing SVGs. It,s not a plain link to the original file... thus ScribusGenerator doesn't support it.
If you can think of a way to include files (SVG or SLA) per URL that is compatible with the syntax of Scribus files I,d love to read about it, since I,m working a lot with SVG and am a bit sad to lose the vector quality because of raster export needed to be able to create files dynamically... But the final result is acceptable with a high enough raster image resolution (i.e. exporting SVG to an image).
I manage to make it work, but with PDFs. So I have one step of converting SVGs to PDFs, but I can than automatize process, plus having them not being rasterized.
From my experience the PDFs get rasterized by Scribus when you include them as images... but I didn't check it out in recent release and that would indeed be an acceptable workaround. Thanks.
If you export with this option checked
than it does not rasterize it. Only thing that I did not test is does Generator uses this option.
Great. ScribusGenerator does a full copy of the XML element in the source file, so the 'embed' option should work just fine, that,s great news, thanks!