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Re: PDF image support in db2pdf?...
- From: Herman Bruyninckx <Herman dot Bruyninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
- To: Éric Bischoff <e dot bischoff at noos dot fr>
- Cc: docbook-tools-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 11:03:24 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: PDF image support in db2pdf?...
- Reply-to: Herman Bruyninckx <herman dot bruyninckx at mech dot kuleuven dot ac dot be>
On Mon, 29 Jul 2002, Éric Bischoff wrote:
> On Monday 29 July 2002 10:43, Ismael Olea wrote:
> > El lun, 29-07-2002 a las 08:27, Herman Bruyninckx escribió:
> > > I have a text with a couple of figures, and eps, png etc work fine,
> > > but not pdf. Is it sufficient to just add a keyword ``PDF'' in the
> > > docbook-utils.dsl file?
> >
> > Using docbook sgml 4.1:
> > (...) and png files:
> > (...) it works for me perfectly.
>
> I think that Herman wanted to use a PDF file as an image. Am I right?
Indeed. PNG works fine, indeed, but it is a bitmap format...
> I suppose that modifying the dsl file could perharps work, but what
> if the PDF file is made of several pages?
>
> My advice would be to convert the PDF file, if made of a single page, to EPS
> first.
>
> Comments?
>
I want to maintain clickable links in my final PDF output, so the
detour via Postscript doesn't sound too good...
Herman
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