[Scribus] best image format

[heathenx]

This is a real noob question but I'm going to ask it anyway. All my image files are in PDF form 
right now. I can convert the PDF file to EPS through Adobe Acrobat but is that in true EPS form or 
is it degraded. When I compare the PDF file to the newly converted EPS, the EPS looks like @#$%! I 
do not have a EPS export option in my CAD system, dang it!

heathenx

Gregory Pittman wrote the following on 4/4/2007 12:28 PM:
> avox wrote:
>> heathenx-2 wrote:
>>   
>>> 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.
>>
>>   
> 
> Yes, we've had this discussion many a time on the list. The main
> question is what your options are. If you must use a bitmap (and as
> Andreas says, from Scribus' point of view a PDF is a bitmap because of
> how it uses the PDF), use a high ppi. If you can manage an EPS or SVG,
> all the better.
> 
> Greg
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