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Mina

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Wouldn't it make sense to include Scribus in the question?

5 Sep 2023 at 23:42 | Wall-to-wall | Open on swiss-talk.net
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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Jocelyn Etienne

@Mina @inkscape

I use #inkscape #layers show/hide in order to create #overlays both for #TexLatex #Beamer class and (occasionally) for #LibreOffice #impress.

The part which is not convenient is that, if I edit sthg, I need to re-export all the layer combinations into each of the files that are included. And, with Impress, to re-import each of them. (And by the way, to remember the file names I've used for such or such combination).

Example use: a schematic with/without captions.

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6 Sep 2023 at 7:17 | Open on scicomm.xyz
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Jocelyn Etienne

@Mina @inkscape

I'd love having an #Inkscape interface that:
- remembers what layer combination goes into what file (something I can script... but won't in general),
- and can regenerate all the exported PDF files in one go, or, better, generate a multipage PDF with them.

For #TexLatex #beamer, inkscape could also upojn request generate the inclusion code needed with a given range of overlay numbers.

#Latex (recommended use: #TexLatex to avoid confusion)
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@Mina @inkscape

I'd love having an #Inkscape interface that:
- remembers what layer combination goes into what file (something I can script... but won't in general),
- and can regenerate all the exported PDF files in one go, or, better, generate a multipage PDF with them.

For #TexLatex #beamer, inkscape could also upojn request generate the inclusion code needed with a given range of overlay numbers.

6 Sep 2023 at 7:23 | Open on scicomm.xyz
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Jocelyn Etienne

@Mina @inkscape

For #libreOffice #Impress, what'd be great is that, when importing a multipage PDF, it would automatically duplicate the current slide into as many slides as PDF pages, and import successive pages as images into each of them.

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6 Sep 2023 at 7:23 | Open on scicomm.xyz
Thorsten Behrens

@jocelyn_etienne @Mina @inkscape that sounds like a great idea for a little #libreoffice extension, or cmdline tool. there's lpod-python or #odf-toolkit for #ODF file manip, and for pdf page extraction, there's tons of existing code. #weekend #hack anyone? :)

6 Sep 2023 at 11:22 | Open on fosstodon.org
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦ Jocelyn Etienne

@thb @inkscape

I guess one caveat is the resizing of the imported content: if resize is done after the import, which afaik is the usual workflow in #libreoffice, then it needs to be repeated for each and every imported image on differnt slides... probably even worse than manual duplication+image replacement.
Not sure wha'ts the best #ux solution to that, maybe actually a right-click option on an imported image, already there and resized, which would offer "Import the other pages from PDF"?

6 Sep 2023 at 12:04 | Open on scicomm.xyz
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