Sunil Whenever I want to import a largish table into Scribus, I export from OO.org as PDF at 300dpi or higher. Including those PDFs in Scribus gives me a result just as if I had had done them in Scribus itself (printed at a printer on the other side of the world too).
regards Craig On Monday 04 October 2004 04:26, Sunil Joshi wrote: > Craig: Thank you for your suggestions! I will try later tonight to > import the scribus pages and see if that resolves the issue. > > I have no doubt this solution will work perfectly for scribus created > documents (pages). However, on another page, I have a table layout, > which due to the complexity of formatting, I am creating in Microsoft > excel, and saving it as a pdf document (through print menu on Mac). > Unfortunately, on Mac, I am not aware of a way to save the pdf in > higher resolution than the standard. > > Is there another, perhaps better way to import spreadsheet selection > while retaining its styles? > > Thanks for your help. > > Kind regards, > > Sunil > > On Sunday, October 3, 2004, at 01:28 AM, Craig Ringer wrote: > > On Sun, 2004-10-03 at 07:02, Sunil Joshi wrote: > >> I have created two pdf pages "page2.pdf" and "page7.pdf" which are > >> then > >> laid out on a separate page to create a spread (labeled > >> insidespread1.pdf). When I view the separate pdf pages in Acrobat, > >> the > >> text resolution is perfect. Its also perfect when I print these two > >> pages on the 600 dpi laser printer (Brother 5070N). However, when I > >> view the insidespread1.pdf document in acrobat, the text resolution > >> appears to be lower, and text does not print cleanly on the same > >> printer. > > > > Scribus currently rasterises PDFs placed on the pages when it outputs a > > new PDF. As a result, instead of drawing instructions your document > > contains images, making it both larger and lower quality. > > > > Direct embedding of PDF in PDF is not currently supported - my > > understanding is that it's quite hard, too. I'm not aware of _anything_ > > else that can do it, in fact. Acrobat can insert pages from one PDF > > into > > another, but I don't think even Acrobat 6 Pro can place one PDF onto a > > region of another PDF. > > > > I believe one commonly suggested workaround for what you are presently > > trying to do is to import the Scribus pages instead and arrange them. > > > > For PostScript output it is also possible to export the pages as EPS > > files, as they will be included verbatim in the new PS file (this does > > not apply to PDF input or output). In fact, it's possible to export a > > PostScript document containing the two EPSs then use ps2pdf from > > GhostScript to make a perfectly good PDF. Do get a recent version of > > GhostScript if you're going to do this, though. > > > > Another option is to simply export the PDF at a higher resolution, > > though this will make it even larger. It'll also take longer and use > > more memory. > > > > -- > > Craig Ringer > > www.jayateas.com > PREMIUM TEAS FROM THE HIGHLANDS
