Peter Nermander wrote:

>>This brings up a question that no doubt someone can answer: Why is the 
>>translation of a Scribus .sla file to PDF a one-way process?  Why 
>>couldn't Scribus "undo" a conversion to PDF?
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>There is no reliable way of doing it, I think. You can use several different 
>solutions in Scribus so acheive the same PDF. For example how would the 
>importer know if a two colum layout is a two column text frame or two separate 
>text frames?
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So I guess what you're saying is that PDF is just a description of how 
to arrange a bunch of colored dots on a screen or page?  Is there a way 
of embedding information in a PDF file that a pdf reader would be 
"blind" to?

(the poster formerly known as Greg)


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