On 3/8/07, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Thanks, Chris. Yes, I have tried saving as ODG from Inkscape, but the text is not visible in the ODG figure after conversion. An example is attached. And yes, I need that the presentation looks perfect both on screen and in print.
Ouch. I've not spent any time in OO Draw until now - it's not so good :( Then again, I've been spoiled by years of AI use. Back on topic: I tried various mixtures of vector formats with no luck - every conversion ended up wonky in OO. I assume that you have a good reason for not setting the text in OO Impress - that would probably bypass the text issues, but... In order to get your SVG into Impress and make it look good on-screen and in print, I used this method: 1. Inkscape: Save as EPS [1] 2. GIMP: Open to desired res [2] 3. GIMP: Save as PNG 4. OO: Insert Picture [1] - tried going straight from SVG to GIMP, but the Inkscape SVG contains a page border and GIMP renders the whole thing - that could probably be changed in Inkscape, but I didn't explore further. [2] - I used 72 DPI. 300 looked terrible on-screen (LCD monitor, in case it matters). Printing to an inkjet produced good results, but I doubt that it would look as good on a laser. I'm not satisfied with this method, as there should be a way of keeping everything vector - but I feel that OO is still a work in progress and (seemingly) doesn't have robust support for vector objects yet. I've stumbled across a SVG importer for OO, but it appears to require Java 5 (aka jre 1.5 a la Sun). This page has links to the importer and bugs related to SVG and OO: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/SVG_Import_Filter Anybody: thoughts on this? Chris
