[scribus] Importing pdf

[John Culleton]

On Tuesday 08 February 2011 08:26:04 a.l.e wrote:
> hi john,
>
> >   I can't speak for the other John, but I have a document that
> > was prepared in pdftex. Because it contains color I need it in
> > pdf x/1- a:2001 format. Otherwise it is not acceptable to the
> > printer, LSI. I have had good luck with covers for LSI using
> > Scribus 1.5.0. But this booklet has a color interior as well.
> >
> > It looks like I will have to break the pages apart and import
> > them one by one.
> >
> > Bummer.
>
> so, you're using scribus as a pdf ?? to pdf x/1a converter?
>
> as i said: doable, but not really the purpose of scribus...
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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Understood, but Scribus 1.5.0 is the only reliable Open Source program 
that will produce valid PDF/x 1-a:2001. There is a TeX routine that 
will patch the labels in the pdf file but it doesn't check or change 
the content of the file AFAIK. 

Instead of page at a time importing  of single pdf pages I have the 
alternative of redoing the whole book in Scribus.  That has some side 
advantages. 

Stay tuned.
-- 
John Culleton
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