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PDF import the only really missing feature
by Michael Brade on Friday 11/Feb/2005, @07:17

A big Thanks to all Scribus developers! I really love this app for all
its great features. But what I'm still missing is a PDF import function
because on Linux/Unix there seems to be absolutely no way to edit a PDF
file :-/

Is this planned already for some future version? If not, is it just lack
of developers or knowledge? Franz told me a couple of months ago that a
PDF parser is missing and he does not know how to write one. I know how
to do things like that since I had to write 3 compilers already, so I
could offer my help in this area.

Cheers,
Michael

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Re: PDF import the only really missing feature
by Børre Gaup on Friday 11/Feb/2005, @07:36

You can import PDF-files into KWord (if that's of any help :-) )

Regards,
Børre

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Re: PDF import the only really missing feature
by ac on Friday 11/Feb/2005, @09:03

A new parser (library) for PDF files would be incredibly cool if both Scribus and KWord can make use of it as import filters as well as KPDF for offering further standard compliant PDF parsing beyond what XPDF supports!

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Re: PDF import the only really missing feature
by Martin on Friday 11/Feb/2005, @11:52

Full ACK. And PDF import seems to be nearly there
(I'm not a programmer though). I recently tried to
import a PDF and found that it's putting all pages on
top of each other. If only it would import page-by-page
or at least allow to select one page this would be a
major breakthrough for all of us who so far need
to fight with making the full Acrobat version (not the Reader)
work under Linux in order to analyse colors, font-sizes, line-heights,
etc. This would even be sth. which would be really be cool in KPDF.
I'm working at an advertising agency and we have to analyse PDF files
even more often than to edit them.

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PDF Import
by Craig Ringer on Sunday 13/Feb/2005, @06:48

It would be pretty cool.

Unfortunately, truly accurate PDF import is very hard. Users will want something where the round trip of import -> save -> export produces nearly identical, if not identical, output. Given the extreme variety of things that can be done in PDF, that's a big ask.

That's not to say it can't be done ... just that getting one that can accurately round trip content may be a bit step past just getting one to import text and graphics ;-)

Importing editable text is also another very tricky thing.

Personally, I'd like to see the ability to embed PDF unchanged in EPS and PDF output (Scribus currently rasterises it) before something like this, but ... well, different folks different priorities I guess.

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