Jiri Bohac wrote: > Hi, > > I need to create a PDF A0 poster, containing (among other things) > AutoCad drawings. > > I thought the best way to go would be to create an EPS from AutoCad, > and insert that into Scribus. But if I understand correctly, Scribus > will rasterize the EPS when exporting to PDF. Rasterizing crisp vector > graphics is something I want to avoid. > > I found two other ways to get my EPS into the PDF without rasterizing, > but they both seem awkward: > > - I can File->Import the EPS instead of inserting it as an image. This > imports all of the multiple-thousand AutoCad objects into Scribus. > This just does not seem to be the right thing to do, as it will make > Scribus always work with all the objects individually, re-drawing them > all the time, no fast-preview, huge file size... > > - I can print my Scribus document to a Postscript file and use ps2pdf (a > wrapper using gs and its pdfwrite DEVICE) to create the PDF. I > actually tried that and the AutoCad objects are beautifully crisp, all > vector. However, the Scribus PDF export filter has a good reputation > and I don't really want to miss all the nice features (selecting which > fonts to embed, etc...). > > What can you recommend? Is there something I am missing that can force > Scribus to export the EPS graphics as vectors into the PDF? If not, > why? Does it make sense, only just noone had the time to implement it, or > is there some fundamental problem I am not seeing? > > Which of my two workarounds can you recommend? Should I be expecting any > obvious problems with any of them? > > The first thing I would suggest is not to do a workaround, just create your A0 document, then examine it in a PDF viewer at high mag to see what it looks like.
Greg
