Link vector/SVG files with Generator

[SreckoM]

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?

[berteh]

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).

[SreckoM]

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.

[berteh]

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.

[SreckoM]

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.

[berteh]

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!