[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?
> 
> 
I checked this out a bit on Linux (Fedora 28). Curiously, I can load a PDF into an image frame, but when I try to export to PDF, I get an error stating "Unable to load an image: /tmp/xxxxxxxxx.pdf" even though the file is there and I can open it with Adobe Acrobat. This occurs whether or not I check Embed PDF in the PDF Exporter dialog.
It works Ok with importing PDF as vector. I did notice that when I import as vector, I am asked which page to import, but not when putting a PDF into an image frame, and this was a 2-page PDF...is this important?

Greg