[Scribus] Importing multi-page pdf (2)

[Bart Alberti]

Min Xu wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 03:12:42PM -0500, Gregory Pittman wrote:
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>>Gregory Pittman wrote:
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>>>Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
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>>>>At the moment, I think the best way to import certain pages from a pdf
>>>>is to make use of pdftk. 
>>>>One of the many things it can do is break a pdf into single pages.
>>>>It would go like this:
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>>>>    pdftk mydoc.pdf burst
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>>>>Then these separate pages can be imported into Scribus.
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>>>>pdftk can be found here:  http://www.pdfhacks.com/pdftk/
>>>>I have SUSE 10.0, it's included in the distro as well.
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>>>If it works without resolution loss, it might be one of the answers to 
>>>the problem, and maybe something Min Xu should look into. I'll check it out.
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>>Hallelujah! Our prayers are answered!
>>Seems to work well; takes it a while to grind out the results, but the 
>>results look good -- I couldn't tell any difference from the source 
>>file, and I might add that it's not destructive, you still have your 
>>source file.
>>I have FC4, and it was available via 'yum install pdftk' -- not sure 
>>which repository, but since I only use updates, extras, and livna, it is 
>>readily available.
>>This may obviate the need for Craig to tackle PDF import. As Eric 
>>Raymond has said, one of the advantages of Linux is that you don't have 
>>to have monster applications that do it all, you can often use a 
>>collection of utilities to more efficiently get your work done. 
>>According to yum, the RPM for pdftk is only 848K, and it has many other 
>>capabilities.
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>>Maybe Min Xu will pick up on this tonight.
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>Hey, I am picking it up earlier than tonight.
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>Thanks to Sjoerd and Gregory for invaluable help. I did some more
>tests. The results did get improved.
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>(pdftk is really a cool program too!)
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>First, here is a screenshot of acroread where there is no resolution
>lose (I think).
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>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~xu/tmp/imported.jpg
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>This file is generated by selecting "import eps/ps" from the file menu
>in scribus. (but I think the font looks strange.)
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>Next, I took the suggestion from Greg and loadImage() from single
>page pdf files.
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>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~xu/tmp/loadImage-pdf.jpg
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>The results looked better than yesterday, where I loadImage() from single
>page ps file.
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>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~xu/tmp/test.gif
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>The resultion did get higher, but so did the file. The resulting pdf
>grew from 6MB to 13MB.
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>Can someone really explain what's the difference between import and
>loadImage()?
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>Thanks again!
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>-Min
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I agree. I have been aware of pdftk for about a year and I find it 
indispensable for handling pdf. The syntax is sometimes baffling but you 
folks have obviously mastered it.

Bart Alberti