[scribus] Embedded PDF pages

[Gregory Pittman]

On 1/18/19 5:05 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> Hi --
> 
> I'm working on a Windows 10 system; my colleague is working on a Mac running macOS Mojave.  We are both using Scribus 1.5.4.
> 
> We are trying to place a PDF page in a Scribus file.  I insert an image frame and then click on "get image" and select the PDF page to be inserted.  The low-res graphic is displayed.
> 
> On Windows, I can select Export->Save as PDF, then check "Embed PDF and EPS files" and create a PDF, which embeds the PDF I placed.  On the Mac, this option is grayed out and not available.  (In an earlier version of both macOS and Scribus, this worked.)  PDFs exported from the Mac only have the low-res graphic, not the embedded PDF.
> 
> Can any one suggest a fix for the problem with the Mac not being able to embed PDF files?
> 
> 

Hi Michael,

What you should try is File > Import > Get Vector file...
This is much better than the old way, which rasterizes the PDF. You have much greater capabilities of editing your imported PDF as a vector. 

Greg