> ----- 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. Craig
