>>> >> I think it's best to leave it to remind yourself that this is going to >>> >> be a rasterized PDF, >>> >> >Is there a reason that Scribus handles PDF like that? Having a call to >> >Ghostscript translating the PDF to PS instead of pixels and placing it >> >would not have been much overhead, so I wonder why it is done like that. >> > > the answer is simple: > it was much easier to do it that way, since ghostscript is doing all the > work! > > but: the devs are already working on it and 135svn already has some sort of > vector import of pdfs! > Another way to do this, is to use the 0.46 version of Inkscape, which can import PDF's really really well, then save as a svg file. Then import the SVG file into Scribus. Then in theory you will still keep your vectors from the PDF ..
You may have to play with the group/ungroup options in Inkscape to see the PDF imported properly before exporting. -- Kind regards Julian Robbins
