[scribus] Concatenating PDFs - quality?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 22.12.2011 09:29, schrieb Owen:
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>> 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?
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> AFAICT, concatening pdf files does not affect the images.
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> A pdf file is a text/binary file and  joining them does not affect the
> body of the file
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> The  reverse, breaking, or rearranging a pdf file does not affect the
> contents.
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>   --
> Owen


Thanks, Owen. I would have expected it to be so, but one never knows ;-)

Just wanted to make sure I don't run into some trouble later.

Rolf