On 12/22/2011 04:02 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > Am 22.12.2011 09:29, schrieb Owen: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Currently I'm working at a little book with a lot of photos. After >>> page >>> 12 or so I noticed that Scribus takes more and more time to load. All >>> of >>> this is discussed in the Wiki. So I decided to start the next part of >>> the book as a new file. >>> >>> There is only one thing: When I concatenate the PDFs after finishing >>> the >>> book, will this have any impact on the photos? Do they need to be >>> extracted/deflated and inflated again, or does the PDF file format >>> allow >>> for a simple cut-and-paste of whole contents? >> >> >> >> >> AFAICT, concatening pdf files does not affect the images. >> >> A pdf file is a text/binary file and joining them does not affect the >> body of the file >> >> The reverse, breaking, or rearranging a pdf file does not affect the >> contents. >> >> >> >> -- >> Owen > > > Thanks, Owen. I would have expected it to be so, but one never knows ;-) > > Just wanted to make sure I don't run into some trouble later. >
I just made a PDF of some vacation photos, for which I had to break up the Scribus document so that I could work with them in Scribus, then used pdftk to join them. The result was a >700MB PDF, in which I saw no problems. Greg
