On Friday 26 November 2004 08:30, Craig Ringer wrote: > On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:16, Nik wrote: > > I would like to be able to use PDF as an exchange format, so I could > > receive a document in PDF, import it and modify it, and produce a new PDF > > as a result. > > Unfortunately, what it comes down to is that Scribus just doesn't > support that. PDF, as a format, really isn't designed for it - the only > program I can think of that can really modify PDF is Adobe Acrobat, and > even it can't do that much without the PitStop plugin.
I think that is a little incorrect, given Adobe hasnt updated PS in ages. Theres nothing wrong with PDF editing. Now, can someone give us 48 hours per day? > Of course, "It's hard" has provably never stopped the Scribus guys, but > I haven't heard anybody talking about anything like this planned anytime > soon. I wouldn't be surprised if such a feature, if implemented, worked > like PS/EPS import rather than like opening a document. We have had it in testing.. and we will have it again. Nothing is impossible, just takes time. > > My attempts at importing PDF or Postscript have resulted in either > > Scribus hanging, or completing immediately with no apparent change. The > > menu shows only EPS/PS, but I wondered if PDF might also be supported by > > this option? > > When importing PS/EPS, a recent GhostScript is absolutely critical. I > very strongly recommend getting gs 8.16 or 8.3x from > http://www.ghostscript.com/ . Yes.. exactly. Scribus relies on the goodness that is Ghostscript. Make sure you get the latest, and while you are at it, make sure theres a bug in your distros' bug system for getting something newer than 7.07. > See > http://docs.scribus.net/index.php?lang=en&sm=dtptoolbox&page=toolbox7 > for a bit more information on this. > > You'll also find that PS or EPS documents that are imported are imported > without bitmap images, and with text rendered as vector graphics. It's > not really overly conducive to exporting a document, editing it > somewhere else, and importing it again. Importing the graphics is just another thing on the todo list. > > I have tried postscript created by OpenOffice, kGhostView, and Scribus. > > I've had good results from OO.o PS, Scribus PS, QuarkXPress EPS files > (and trust me, that's saying something), Acrobat EPS made from PDF > files, and PS created by an app called Pongrass. I still run into the > odd one that gives me trouble, and am collecting a set to send to Franz > as tests, but mostly they 'just work' within the limitations of the > importer. There should be some more updates to the PS importer as I found a couple of commands last night that we didnt support yet. > Depending on what you need to do, you may have better results using EPS > or PDF in graphics frames using 'get picture'. The downside is that > they're rasterised when exported to PDF. You can work around this by > converting any PDFs to EPSs, and making a PostScript file from Scribus > that you then distill with Acrobat Distiller or ps2pdf. Or just use a high enough res PDF. I have exported many a complex table at 300+dpi into PDF from OO.org and embedded with perfect results in Scribus. You ain't seen nothin yet... :D Craig PS: (now, about those 48hrs/day..) -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20041126/ad7ca1f2/attachment.pgp
