[scribus] Fitting page dimensions to an imported PDF.

[John Culleton]

On Wednesday 08 September 2010 10:35:42 John Culleton wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 September 2010 00:51:00 Peter Nermander wrote:
> > > If I import a pdf file with an unknown horizontal dimension is
> > > there a way (other than hand-fitting it) to change the Scribus
> > > page dimensions to the exact measurements of the imported pdf
> > > file? In other words I want the Scribus page and the imported
> > > pdf to be exactly congruent.
> >
> > I can not really understand the use here, if you want the page of
> > a PDF to exactly fit a page in Scribus, why even bother to pull
> > it into Scribus to create a new PDF?
> >
> > And then why not open the PDF in Adobe Reader first to find out
> > the dimensions?
> >
> > I guess you could also import the PDF into an image frame and Fit
> > to image, then you can see the dimensions in the properties of
> > the image frame. Maybe you can even see the properties of the
> > imported page in properties palette (I haven't tried)?
> >
> > /Peter
> >
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I am going to try another tack, insert an svg file into a graphics 
frame. Stay tuned.
-- 
John Culleton
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