[scribus] Embedded PDF pages

[Gregory Pittman]

On 1/18/19 7:30 PM, Michael Eager wrote:
> On 01/18/2019 03:42 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I tried Import>Get Vector (on Windows).  When I export the PDF, it does not look like the PDF has been embedded.  When I open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat, I'm not able select text in the imported page, although I can select words in other text or in a PDF embedded the old way.
> 

When you import PDF as vector, the text consists of shapes for the individual glyphs, therefore you lose any connection with them as text (like exporting the text from Adobe Acrobat).
At the same time, you lose this also with rasterized text in an image frame.

Greg