Conal Jardine wrote: > Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> >> 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. >> > > This could be the holy grail for importing our newspapers adverts with > vector data intact! I'm Having trouble making it work though. pdftops is > working fine but Scribus says "importing file blahblah.ps failed" > > At the moment, we first try and import the pdf's directly using (File > > Import > EPS/PS). This only works with very basic pdf's. Often we have > to rasterize the adverts. > > Any more tips on a work-flow that lets us preserve vector from pdf's > would be great! > Can you import the .ps file to some other app? File > Import > EPS/PS will not work with a PDF, it has to be EPS or PS.
maybe try pdftops -eps input.pdf output.eps If there is more than one page, you need to 'burst' the pdf with pdftk Greg
