[Scribus] Bounty for true PDF handling in Scribus
    Philipp Klaus Krause 
    pkk
       
    Sat Feb  2 21:37:06 CET 2008
    
    
  
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Craig Ringer schrieb:
>     - If the document being imported is of a PDF version newer than the 
> PDF being exported, problems may arise.
>     It's probably best to rasterise the input PDF (like we do now) in 
> this situation. In theory you could scan the
>     content streams of the input PDF and check if it actually used 
> features not supported by the current PDF
>     version (like transparency and layers if you're exporting PDF 1.3) 
> but this is difficult and may not be entirely
>     reliable.
Isn't there a way to handle this situation similar to the one below (so
we cankeep the vector stuff)? MAybe just going through pdf2ps and ps2df
to reduce the pdf version number?
>     - Using XObjects only helps if you're exporting to PDF. You'd want 
> to use GhostScript or similar to convert
>     the PDF to EPS for embedding in PostScript output (this will 
> preserve vector lines etc), 
Philipp
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