[scribus] Concatenating PDFs - quality?

[Owen]

> Hi folks,
>
> Currently I'm working at a little book with a lot of photos. After
> page
> 12 or so I noticed that Scribus takes more and more time to load. All
> of
> this is discussed in the Wiki. So I decided to start the next part of
> the book as a new file.
>
> There is only one thing: When I concatenate the PDFs after finishing
> the
> book, will this have any impact on the photos? Do they need to be
> extracted/deflated and inflated again, or does the PDF file format
> allow
> for a simple cut-and-paste of whole contents?




AFAICT, concatening pdf files does not affect the images.

A pdf file is a text/binary file and  joining them does not affect the
body of the file

The  reverse, breaking, or rearranging a pdf file does not affect the
contents.



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Owen