Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress

Hi,

On Sat, 2011-05-28 at 11:56 -0700, Ilja Gerhardt wrote:

> Hi Tom -
>
> well, the issue is to include scientific graphs etc. from other programs
> (plots, CAD, etc.) - the way to inkscape is quite straight forward.  But
> then from there further to LO is a pain (as described). Maybe other
> people have similar issues and found a better way than 'try'n'error' as
> I do it right now.
>
> What do you refer to that 'Impress is fairly broken'?
>
> Cheers!
>
> On 05/28/2011 11:35 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> > Hi :)
> > I think svg is the best even tho it's not perfect right now.  Perhaps miss out 
> > on using inkscape and just create things in Draw instead?  I haven't tried 
> > either but i would guess that Draw is more compatible with Impress.  Actually 
> > Impress seems to be fairly broken right now but hopefully that will get better 
> > too!
> > Good luck and regards from
> > Tom :)
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: Ilja Gerhardt <ilja@cryptix.de>
> > To: users@libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Sat, 28 May, 2011 19:18:17
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Workflow / vector graphics to LO / Impress
> >
> > Hi NoOp -
> >
> > sure, I know that the SVG import is halfway there. The question was
> > about 'more robust' import formats. It seems that the ODG exporter of
> > inkscape is also not working and PDF was also quite a disappointment.
> >
> > Maybe other people have a better workflow, not relying on the SVG
> > import, but still another vector format.
> >
> > Cheers!
> >
> >
> > On 05/28/2011 10:48 AM, NoOp wrote:
> > > On 05/28/2011 08:40 AM, Ilja Gerhardt wrote:
> > > ...
> > > > = when I am totally desperate, I save the file as a bitmap and have it
> > > > as a 'never-change-again' object in my presentation
> > > That's about your only real option. SVG is being worked on, but
> > > currently is pretty much borked. See:
> > > <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=LibreOffice&content=svg>
>
>
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I ran into a similar problem importing Dia images into Write, they got
screwed up. What I found works very well was to save the final copy as a
*.png file as well as native. The *.png imported correctly. Inkscape
will export *.png formats.
-- 
Jay Lozier
jslozier@gmail.com

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