[scribus] pdf import

[Jan Schrewe]

Rolf-Werner Eilert schrieb am Donnerstag, 4. September 2008:
> > The PDF does not have a resolution before it gets imported because if it
> > comes from Latex it contains only vector information.
>
> That explains it.

Oh and scribus uses lower resolution pictures to display in the image frame. 
The original image gets embedded into the final pdf.

> > AFAIK Scribus rasterizes a pdf when it gets imported. That explains why
> > printing a file with al lot of pdf takes long, there are a lot of images
> > in it.
>
> Hm. It was not "a lot of" pdfs but "any" more than 0... and it meant the
> one page it is placed on. Maybe the RIP of my printer (it's our A3
> copier) is a bit slow for such rasterizing.

Yup. My printer ususally dies if it gets postscript containing an high res 
picture bigger then A5.

> That's a good idea - never had to do with it before - how would you
> write that line? The man-page doesn't tell me too much:
>
> convert original.pdf new.tif
>
> or something? How about resolution?

convert -density 300 original.pdf output.tif

This will generate you a multipage tif (until now I didn't even know this was 
possible) if the pdf has multiple pages in the same color space that the 
original pdf was in.

For more options see the ImageMagick homepage 
(http://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php). There are a lot of options, so 
it is best to check the homepage for stuff like color profiles or color space 
conversion.

Jan