I have some nice product listings that I spent a lot of time creating in inkscape.

I now want to make a nice stylised booklet that contains some of these product listing pages

How do I get my work out of inkscape and into scribus properly?

What I have tried:

file>import>get vector file...

only some features of the .svg are imported. things are missing, most importantly the text boxes. But other features as well.

btw. I have tried to save from inkscape in various formats to see if things get better, such as .eps and .ps but seems the results are the same

Then I tried to use Insert>insert image frame to a .png or .pdf

These import but resolution problems make this unpractical. Also the size of the .pdf coming out of scribus is huge.

Finally I tried the good old fashioned copy paste from inkscape into scribus. Nothing!

I remember years ago creating a booklet in scribus and I used inkscape to create the individual graphics. The work flow was quite nice and I remember it as an enjoyable experience. I cannot recall how exactly I was moving work from inkscape to scribus, but I seem to recall I was using the clipboard for this. Back then I was on a Win7 machine

What happened that it now does not work?

I am running linux (ubuntu 19.04)

inkscape is 0.92

scribus is 1.4.8

Maybe more of a general question. I have been searching around most of last night trying to find tutorials or help for working with these 2 programs together. I am sure I am not the first to try this. Can any one comment on how they use these 2 programs together. How they move work from one to another, where are the traps, etc...

As first advice I suggest to use Scribus 1.5.x you can get it as appimage and flatpak. Said that Scribus can import SVG, but still can't link this, and it can't read filters as well has issues with gradients, fonts support I thinks is still missing, check this page last time was updated was 2012:

https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Help:Manual_Importsvg

You might export as PDF and then import the PDF as image but I think this is support only from 1.5 version and you need also Ghostscript installed. The other big problem is the PDF output, and that is the same reason I am doing a booklet entirely in Inkscape (haven't finished it yet though). Basically it is unable to resample the images when a document is exported as PDF, hence if there are images imported at 300dpi and you need to export your work as digital PDF at 72DPI those images are still a 300 DPI. Depending on your output you might consider to work at lower resolution if you think you will work only for digital.

.pdf and .png result in raster images in scribus. And quite poor resolution at that.

I was hoping to hear from some people who work with scribus and inkscape together. To learn how they exploit the strengths of these 2 seemingly complimentary programs

@mastercore

This is a bit rude of you, you don't know what I do and what is my experience, but I can demonstrate easily your ignorance on both software and generally in free software too.

To begin Scribus and Inkscare aren't complimentary, the former is focused on off-set printing and the latter is mainly a SVG editor which is the standard vector graphic for web. Said that Scribus was been one of the first DTP software working with SVG files however the interoperability has been always limited; but from version 1.5 Scribus can import and export PDFs as vector file, it doesn't rasterize PDF/EPS if you want, but whatever effect you do on Inkscape it won't converted in PDF unless you rasterize it. My file SVG file has an overlay effect but in the SVG this is handled through CSS and Ghostscript is not designed to convert CSS in postscript features.

You can check the files by yourself...

ehhm, this is a forum, is it not?

I am not directing my question at you at all, I am also not expecting you to answer me at all.

If you want to feel offended, I guess you can go and join the snowflakes who look for offense wherever they can find it.

As for my knowledge of SW and open source software, yes it is limited,  I admit, but you do not have to get all righteous and indignant on  my for asking an innocent question. I am still scratching my head to find what you exactly found offensive, but then I remind myself that these damn snowflakes see offense where there is none to find. They remind me of the school yard bullies during my youth, the ones who contrive anything into an offense simply to justify their gross over reactions.

Some years ago I read somewhere that these 2 programs were always envisioned to be complimentary. I could have been lead astray in my thinking by an uninformed forum user and this connection between scribus and inkscape stuck in my head. So SORRY for THAT.

You have dispelled me from my illusion thank.

I was trying to help you, and I told you, from to the best of my knowledge, how you could overcome some limitations of both software. I am not offended at all, please no kidding, but you wanted some demonstration and I gave it you, now you wanna learn something or just complaining?

I wanted nothing from you personally, and meant no offense to anyone. (still scratching my head as to what triggered you)

As I said, this is a forum and I was hoping others may add their experiences. It is quite obvious that people would try to use scribus and inkscape together, I want to learn from those ahead of me who use them and may suggest workflows that are successful.

There is no more you can add to this conversation

There are still a lot of stuff that I can add to this conversation because, differently by you, I have been using Scribus and Inkscape together in production for digital and off-set printing for all my professional side projects because are about ten years that I don't use on my personal machines anything but Linux and you can't even figuring out what I had to invent for using in combination Gimp, Scribus, Inkscape, Imagemagick, Ghostscript plus the tons of cli utilities available on GNU.

But it's me that doesn't want add anything to this conversation, take care and good luck.

My workflow for two-page projects is mostly Inkscape for graphics -> Scribus for export control. I use GIMP for image editing, if necessary, too. Sometimes I'll jump straight to Scribus for projects that are mostly text, like newsletters and manuals, but I'll still produce some graphics in Inkscape.

I compose my page in Inkscape, including bleeds, then export a PNG at the desired resolution or higher. Then I place that image on a page of the same size in Scribus and export it with all the desired settings. Crop marks, final resolution, etc. Yes, I know it yields a PDF with one raster image per page. It's has only been a problem a handful of times when printing CMYK or requiring color separations. Otherwise, I use Inkscape for its superior design tools and Scribus for its superior text styles and PDF export capabilities.

I also sometimes make page template backgrounds in Inkscape, place them in master pages in Scribus and then use Scribus to add add text, photos, and graphics.

I'm always curious to learn how others do this stuff as well.

Thanks for taking the time Rob to explain your workflows.

I am am using Inkscape to create the graphics and insert them into my multi page scribus projects. The process is not without it glitches, but I am managing.

For some reason I believed that Scribus and Inkscape were intended to be complimentary apps. I now know better.

Thx

I'm with the same need as OP. There is the option to open the SVG with scribus as a new document, copy and paste into another scribus doc. The object will be vectorial, not bitmap as with the image import option.

I hope this helps.