[Scribus] importing multi-page pdf

[Gregory Pittman]

Min Xu wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I have found a way to import multi-page pdfs. But it is repetitive.
> I am trying to write a script to automate the process. But I have
> encountered a problem. If someone on this list can kindly help me
> out, I'd really appreciate it.
>
> Manual importing multi-page pdf
> -------------------------------
>
> I found I can do the following (on linux) to import it:
>
> 1. use pdftops to extra a single page from the pdf
> 2. use import ps/eps to import the page in a tmp.sla file
> 3. use "page->import" to import the page from tmp.sla to the final destination  
>    file
> 4. repeat 1-3 for every page
>
> Problem with scripting it
> -------------------------
>
> I tried to write a script to automate this process. But I
> found the scripter API does not (or I missed it) have function
> to import eps/ps, or to import page(s) from a .sla file.
>
> I ended up using loadImage to do the job of import ps. But
> the imported image has very low quality and the resulting
> file is huge when I export the final .sla back to a pdf.
>
> Can someone tell me how to get around this problem?
>
> What I want to do
> -----------------
>   
> What I want to do is use scribus as a pdf annotator. I knew
> acrobat can do it. I tested scribus, it can do pdf annotation
> on .sla file, but not directly on pdf files. So I try to
> convert a pdf back to .sla.
>   
If you can find a way to break your PDFs into single page PDFs, you can 
use my script scribalbum.py to import them automatically into image 
frames. As written, the script imports PDFs fine, but only the first page.

I've put in on the Wiki:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Automatic_import_of_images_from_a_directory_using_a_script

You will no doubt want to modify this for your purpose. Try it out on a 
directory with image files in it to see if you like the output.
I know it will work on 1.2.x and 1.3.x versions of Scribus.

When I have looked at this before, it seemed that the image quality was 
pretty good with PDFs but I did not look in detail.


Greg