Craig Bradney wrote: >> ----- Original Message ----- >> Subject: [Scribus] PDF importing quality >> From: Ville Aakko <ville.aakko at gmail.com> >> To: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >> Date: 05-11-2007 8:51 >> >> >> Hi! >> >> I'm using Scribus to create a private book for a group of people. The >> book will have advertisement to cover the printing costs. Most >> advertisers send their ads in PDF format (containg both text and >> iamges). The size of the advertisements ranges from 210x297 mm to a >> qurter (105x148mm) of an A4 page. The problem is, that the PDF >> "importing" of scribus is of unacceptable quality - either that, or, >> I'm not using it properly. >> >> If I've understood correctly, Scribus currently only converts PDFs to >> a bitmap image. But Scribus uses a resolution that is way too little >> for any real use - it seems that usually at maximum I can get 72 DPI, >> when the printing job will be 300 DPI! If I create a PDF from scribus >> to be given to a print house, the quality from the imported PDF's is >> noticeable degraded even on my computer screen (compared to the >> original material)! Also, I noticed that for some reason Scribus >> creates images of slightly different sizes from individual PDF files, >> but still roughly only 1/4 of the resolution that would be needed. >> >> Now, is there a way to control how large images Scribus creates from >> the imported PDF's? Or is there an utility, which I can use to create >> bitmaps of certain size, to be imported in to Scribus? >> >> Scribus is a nice project indeed, but IMHO poor support for PDF >> importing is the major flaw, and seems to be the showstopper for me. >> Around here, PDF seems to be the de facto format for transferring >> material to be printed from patrons (though, I do think that a lot of >> people could claim that is shouldn't be). >> >> Hope Scribus gets bettter support for PDF in the near future! In the >> meantime, does anyone got any workarounds for the problem? >> > > Completely untrue. Scribus just renders an image generated by ghostscript. I > have often used 1200 dpi PDFs exported from OpenOffice.org for example, to > import large tables. The only issue is Scribus imports just the first page > of a PDF, but this is easily worked around by exploding the PDF into single > pages if required with something like pdftk. > > It may also be worth using pdftops to convert to postscript, in which case you import (File > Import > EPS/PS) rather than load into an image frame.
Greg
