[scribus] Adobe Reader 8 and Scribus.

[russbucket]

On Wednesday 09 July 2008 11:40:39 am Julian Robbins wrote:
> > You cannot normally open a PDF for editing in Scribus. That said its
> >
> > > > possible to import a PDF, but your mileage may vary. Anyway its not a
> > > > very good way to try it.
> > >
> > > Just to precise : You can import PDF in an image frame. I did it once
> > > when I had to include a PDF from a 3rd party. You cannot edit it. If
> > > you set the image frame to be equal to the size of the page, the
> > > results are OK (but not excellent). Another thing, you can import only
> > > one page; If your PDF is several pages long, you have to split it with
> > > a tool.
> >
> > I just tried Inkscape .46 as recommended by Julian Robbins. Indeed, it
> > has a very nice PDF import feature, and the text is editable, too. Not
> > perfectly editable - you can select a maximum of one line at a time,
> > but at least you can make minor changes if you wish. It can import only
> > one page at a time, although you have your choice of pages, so you
> > could import all the pages of a multipage PDF if you have the patience
> > to do so.
> >
> > I selected a line of text, then copied and pasted into Scribus, but the
> > paste option in Scribus was grayed out. I guess the only way to get the
> > PDF from Inkscape into Scribus is to save as an EPS or something from
> > Inkscape.
>
> Yes. Inkscape does a nice job, with only a few very minor issues. Pretty
> useful really.
> I would save into svg from Inkscape (which is its own native format
> anyway, so its pretty compliant to the stds, and then in Scribus, do
> Import -SVG.
>
> > Interestingly, Inkscape is open source, so whatever code they are using
> > to perform the PDF import must be available to Scribus developers,
> > right?
>
> Well it would be kind a nice to have this functionality, but yes I
> imagine the code could be quite difficult to implement. I know that the
> Inkscape devs and the scribus devs talk pretty frequently anyway and
> share code.
>
> It works via the sk1 project code, a vector editor in its own right. You
> can now even import Coreldraw files and Adobe Illustrator files into
> Inkscape, and again export as SVG, and import into Scribus. But not
> using Windows Inkscape ... see below ..
>
> According to the inkscape notes;
> http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL_v14Draft/html/File-Import.html
> you can import from the following. Note the refs to vers 0.46 which has
> much of the new goodies.
>
> File types supported (a '*' indicates the author (not me, the originator
> ) has not tested the file import):
>
>     *
>
>       /Changed for v0.46./
>
>       .ai (Adobe Illustrator) Opens version 9.0 and later files (based
>       on PDF). See PDF entry below. Older versions (based on PostScript)
>       can be opened by selecting the PostScript or EPS file type from
>       the drop-down menu. On Linux, one can use the *|file|* command to
>       check the version.
>
>     *
>
>       .ai.svg (Adobe Illustrator /SVG
>      
> <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL_v14Draft/html/Glossary.html#svg>/)
> Strips the input of everything in Adobe Illustrator /Name Spaces
> <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL_v14Draft/html/Glossary.html#name_s
>paces>/, leaving the file as pure /SVG
>      
> <http://tavmjong.free.fr/INKSCAPE/MANUAL_v14Draft/html/Glossary.html#svg>/.
>
>
>     *
>
>       /New in v0.46./
>
>       .cdr (CoralDraw) Works only on Linux at the moment. Requires
>       UniConverter
>      
> <http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor>
> to be installed. Text objects not converted. File versions 7 to X4
> supported by UniConverter 1.1.1.
>
>       Note: Fedora Users: The executable |uniconv| was renamed to
>
>       |uniconvertor| to avoid a naming conflict. You can change
>       |/usr/bin/uniconvertor| to |/usr/bin/uniconv| (if you don't
>
>       already have a binary with that name) or you can edit the files
>
>       |cdr_input.inx| and |cdr2svg.sh| in the
>       |share/inkscape/extensions| directory.
>
>     *
>
>       .dia (Dia) Requires Dia <http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/> to be
>       installed.
>
>     *
>
>       .dxf (AutoCAD) Requires |dxf2svg|
>       <http://dxf2svg.sourceforge.net/> to be installed.
>
>     *
>
>       .ico (Windows icon)
>
>     *
>
>       /New in v0.46./
>
>       .pdf (Adobe Portable Document Format) Supported natively through
>       the /poppler <http://poppler.freedesktop.org/>/ library. Also
>       supports .ai (Adobe Illustrator) version 9.0 and later files. A
>       dialog will appear in which one can specify which page of a
>       multipage file should be imported as well as a clip region.
>       /Gradient meshes/ are converted to groups of small tiles. Text is
>       imported with manual kerning. To make editing easier, manual
>       kerning can be removed via the Text → Remove Manual Kerns command.
>
>     *
>
>       .sk (Sketch/Skencil) Requires Skencil
>       <http://www.nongnu.org/skencil/> to be installed. Special shape
>       information (e.g. rectangles) is not preserved.
>
>     *
>
>       /Updated in v0.46 (new method that works)./
>
>       .wmf (Windows Meta File) Requires UniConverter
>      
> <http://www.sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor>
> to be installed.
>
>       Note: Fedora Users: The executable |uniconv| was renamed to
>
>       |uniconvertor| to avoid a naming conflict. You can change
>       |/usr/bin/uniconvertor| to |/usr/bin/uniconv| (if you don't
>
>       already have a binary with that name) or you can edit the files
>
>       |wmf_input.inx| and |cdr2svg.sh| in the
>       |share/inkscape/extensions| directory.
>
>     *
>
>       /New in v0.46./
>
>       .xaml (Microsoft Application eXtensible Markup Language).*
>
> I've edited the file to remove the obvious ones, but you can see
> Inkscape could be a really useful way to import files that you cant
> (yet) import directly into Scribus.
>
> Hope its useful for someone.

Thanks I'll install Inkscape and give it a try.    

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Russ
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