[Scribus] best image format

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heathenx-2 wrote:
> 
> During the conversion of my manual from InDesign to Scribus, I have
> noticed that InDesign handles 
> the placement of PDF images a little better than Scribus. Let me fill you
> in. I use Autodesk 
> Inventor to model our product, make a 2D print (3D isometric line art),
> and then save the 2D print 
> out as a PDF. This worked well in InDesign because the PDF's didn't seem
> to degrade, in other words 
> they kept their resolution when scaling up and down.
> 
> After a page was finished in InDesign, I would export the page out as a
> PDF file. This printed very 
> well and looked very good in Adobe Reader. Scribus on the other hand
> prints pretty well but the 
> finished PDF of the page looks very bad and takes a long time to render
> all of the images in Adobe 
> Reader.
> 
> Instead of PDF files as my images, should I be using something else, like
> eps or tiff? I am using 3D 
> isometric line art and I want the lines to be as crisp a possible when
> scaling the images up or down 
> in an image frame.
> 

Currently, Scribus still converts PDFs in imageframes to bitmaps, which show
the described behaviour.
Tiff will not be any better, but you can import eps (and sometimes pdf) via
File->Import natively
into Scribus. Scribus will then create a group of vector objects.

/Andreas
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