[scribus] Concatenating PDFs - quality?

[Gregory Pittman]

On 12/22/2011 04:02 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Am 22.12.2011 09:29, schrieb 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.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> 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.
>

I just made a PDF of some vacation photos, for which I had to break up 
the Scribus document so that I could work with them in Scribus, then 
used pdftk to join them. The result was a >700MB PDF, in which I saw no 
problems.

Greg