Gregory Pittman wrote: > John Jason Jordan wrote: >> On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:19:50 -0400 >> Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> dijo: >> >> I did place a PDF and I noticed that the screen view was fuzzy. > Probably the end result will not be quite that bad. You would have to > look at the final PDF to know what it looks like, and mind the > resolution settings when you export.
Yep. Rather than loss of quality, your real worry is file size, which will go up a *LOT* because of the rasterised embedded PDFs. I've wanted native pdf-in-pdf embedding for ages, but a prerequisite is getting a PDF parser into Scribus (easy) and getting it's PDF output backend to use the same document model so that objects can be merged in (harder). Every time I work on the latter I find bugs or limitations in PoDoFo that I have to go and fix, by which time I tend to run out of time to work on it. I'll keep plodding away and hopefully get it done this century :S . I'm now planning on targeting a test branch that intentionally disables some features (like PDF encryption) because support in PoDoFo isn't ready, in exchange for support for PDF-in-PDF embedding. -- Craig Ringer
