On Sat, 30 May 2009 09:28:39 -0600 John Meyer <[email protected]> dijo:
> Why are you opening pdfs in Scribus? I've always thought of PDFs as a > final output, not a file to be edited. I don't know what Dotan is using the PDFs for, but I export specific selections from OOo as PDFs to place in Scribus because I need the formatting that OOo has and which is lacking in Scribus, e.g., tables and fomulas. I am using 1.3.5Rc1. Having said that, placing a PDF directly in Scribus means Scribus will rasterize it. Vectors are much better for my work, so I import the PDF into Inkscape first, save as SVG, and place the SVG into Scribus. Inkscape has a terrific PDF import feature, although it does it one page at a time. An even faster way is to print to PS file and place the PS file directly in Scribus. This way Scribus will preserve the vectors and I don't have to go through Inkscape. However, I do still go through Inkscape occasionally because sometimes Scribus does strange things when importing a PS file - elements get messed up. For example, a table of two columns had numbers in the left column and firmulas in the right column. When I placed the PS file into Scribus the numbers were half again their original size (12 points). The PS file was fine as viewed in Ghostscript. I opened the PS file in Inkscape, which also imported it correctly, saved as SVG, and placed the SVG into Scribus. Scribus imported the SVG correctly. (I have filed a bug report on the PS import issues.) And once in a while OOo will print incorrectly to PS, but will export correctly to PDF, or I can print to PDF with CUPS-PDF as an alternative workaround. Among the bugs in OOo, Scribus 1.3.5 and Inkscape, which abound in all three, sometimes I have to try several workarounds before I get things right. But so far I have always succeeded. And I always try printing to PS first, because that is the simplest and most direct. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
