On Tue, 10 Nov 2015 09:31:45 -0500 Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 08:54 AM, LORN MACINTYRE wrote: > > I requiire assistance with my Scribus > > programmes, based on the following questions: > > I set a work of fiction in Scribus 1.3.3., > > then exported it as a PDF. I want to go back > > to the original Word document which I > > imported into Scribus in the first instance, > > but find that I cannot do this via the PDF. > > Can I therefore access a programme which will > > allow me to unlock the PDF files and make the > > corrections that way? Secondly, can I import > > files from Scribus 1.3.3. into the improved > > Scribus 1.4.4? Greetings from St Andrews, > > Scotland Dr Lorn Macintyre > > > I think your best option is to use 1.4.5, the > current stable, to edit the Scribus document. > You can always open files from earlier > versions. In 1.5.0 and onward, there is an > ability to import PDFs into Scribus, but this > isn't so useful for text, since the PDF pages > are imported vector graphics, not the original > elements that made up the Scribus file. > > Greg > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: scribus at lists.scribus.net > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > Just imported a one-page pdf into Scribus for corrections, then included that page into the main run. My technique is to burst the current pdf file into individual pages using the pdftk program, edit one or more pages, and then reassemble the pages into a new document. Here is my reassemble script (for Linux of course). gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=segmenta.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f p*.pdf Newer versions of Scribus (1.5.0 and 1.5.1) don't seem to bog down as much on long documents then earlier versions. So i suppose I could do corrections on the entire pdf document. But users of 1,4,5 and earlier may find bursting and then reassembling a useful technique. I am surprised by the number of users who are still using 1.3.3 versions. Upgrading to 1.4.x is not that difficult and pays dividends. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
