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Ryupower
July 7th, 2011, 08:37 PM
Heya, I am used to Illustrator (fluent) and CorelDRAW(played).
When I use my Linux box I try to somehow supplement these with Inkscape and/or XaraLX.

Now here's the issue...I need something for multi-page support, which both, IL and CD have. I looked and found no solution for Inkscape (made it clear that it wasn't implemented). I read that XaraLX supports multi-page, but I haven't found any information on WHERE I can find that option. Any help?

BcRich
July 7th, 2011, 09:40 PM
hi
have you tried scribus, it's available through synaptic? and it does various multipage layouts double-sided, three/four fold etc

Ryupower
July 8th, 2011, 03:54 PM
yes I have, but I consider Scribus an alternative to inDesign. I need multipage support in a solid vector program like Illustrator or CorelDRAW. :)

samigina
July 9th, 2011, 05:31 PM
SK1 supports multipage, but is in early development.

A workaround is to work with layers with inkscape, each layer will be be a page, and you can export like JessyInk presentation (PDF).

Ryupower
January 23rd, 2012, 07:47 AM
What about reading multi-page documents?

prokoudine
January 23rd, 2012, 12:17 PM
What about reading multi-page documents?

Reading what file format exactly? Reading in which application exactly? Please be more specific.

Ryupower
January 23rd, 2012, 04:01 PM
PDFs or AIs...

prokoudine
January 24th, 2012, 09:12 AM
PDFs or AIs...

You still don't specify what software you want to open them in :)

Either way, you can choose what PDF's page you are importing to Inkscape. So you can create several layers in advance, then import them one by one. It's a bit tedious, but it should work.

Ryupower
January 25th, 2012, 12:23 AM
I just want an opensource vector software program like inkscape or xara (NOT SCRIBUS!) that has multi-page support.

prokoudine
January 25th, 2012, 11:36 AM
I just want an opensource vector software program like inkscape or xara (NOT SCRIBUS!) that has multi-page support.

That would be sK1. It's not really feature complete, but it has multiple pages and does CMYK PDF exporting.

Dry Lips
January 26th, 2012, 06:34 PM
That would be sK1. It's not really feature complete, but it has multiple pages and does CMYK PDF exporting.

I can't believe I haven't heard about SK1 before... I've just installed it and it imports SVGs made in Inkscape just fine. I think the combo Inscape + SK1 is a good (but not ideal) solution to the lack of PDF support in Inkscape.

The only downside that I could think of, is that they haven't included packages for 11.10 yet...

Cheers!

prokoudine
January 27th, 2012, 04:06 AM
The only downside that I could think of, is that they haven't included packages for 11.10 yet...Cheers!

The application is undergoing a major rewrite as we speak. I guess builds of the former release is just less important for the guy.

Ryupower
January 27th, 2012, 08:40 PM
That would be sK1. It's not really feature complete, but it has multiple pages and does CMYK PDF exporting.


Hey, I checked out OpenArtist to look at the software it offers, amongst the software I played with (I do have to admit, the creator of that distro put a lot of hard work in pre-compiling everything) was sk1 (whysoever it's named that). It seems very interesting, thank you. I read on their website that SK1 will be redesigned into a program called "PrintDesign(?)", but haven't completed it yet.

Input from everyone on this thread is appreciated!

BTW: Prokoudine, cool website!