[scribus] Embedded PDF pages

[Michael Eager]

On 01/18/2019 03:42 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> On 1/18/19 5:05 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
>> Hi --
>>
>> I'm working on a Windows 10 system; my colleague is working on a Mac running macOS Mojave.  We are both using Scribus 1.5.4.
>>
>> We are trying to place a PDF page in a Scribus file.  I insert an image frame and then click on "get image" and select the PDF page to be inserted.  The low-res graphic is displayed.
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>> On Windows, I can select Export->Save as PDF, then check "Embed PDF and EPS files" and create a PDF, which embeds the PDF I placed.  On the Mac, this option is grayed out and not available.  (In an earlier version of both macOS and Scribus, this worked.)  PDFs exported from the Mac only have the low-res graphic, not the embedded PDF.
>>
>> Can any one suggest a fix for the problem with the Mac not being able to embed PDF files?
>>
>>
> 
> Hi Michael,
> 
> What you should try is File > Import > Get Vector file...
> This is much better than the old way, which rasterizes the PDF. You have much greater capabilities of editing your imported PDF as a vector.

I tried Import>Get Vector (on Windows).  When I export the PDF, it does 
not look like the PDF has been embedded.  When I open the PDF with Adobe 
Acrobat, I'm not able select text in the imported page, although I can 
select words in other text or in a PDF embedded the old way.

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