Craig Bradney wrote: >> This may obviate the need for Craig to tackle PDF import. As Eric >> Raymond has said, one of the advantages of Linux is that you don't have >> to have monster applications that do it all, you can often use a >> collection of utilities to more efficiently get your work done. >> > > a) Scribus runs on more than Linux > An excellent point. And I was thinking anyway, Eric said this about Unix, not Linux. Where would Linux be without Unix? (rhetorical question) > b) I don't believe a user should need to know about pdftk > Hmm. Not that I would argue that pdftk, per se, is essential, but I would hope that Scribus users know about some software other than Scribus, otherwise they would want it to duplicate everything that Gimp and Inkscape do. > c) I'm too lazy and want Scribus to do it for me, automagically. (click, > click, click.. BANG!.. done.. on your page(s)) > > so, I'll code it if I get a chance, though I'm hacking on other things > tonight. > And this is precisely why we're here. But what if somebody figured out how to run pdftk from a script, and then handed that over to Scribus...? Looking at the job that pdftk does, it's not so much of a BANG! but more of a rumble, rumble, rumble...yet still automagical.
Greg
