I want to make a conference poster with Scribus. The poster contains many figures which I prepared with GNUplot, R, Adobe Illustrator... in PDF format. The figures are all in separate PDF files with one page each. I want to import the PDF figures into the Scribus poster and save the whole thing as one PDF.
I tried doing this: make a new Scribus document, make one image frame for each figure, load the PDF into each repsective the frame, then export the document as one PDF.
As a result, I get a PDF which does contain my original figures, but to my dismay they are not vectorized anymore. Scribus apparently converted them into bitmaps!
I.e. the resulting output is a PDF file all right, but all the vector information is gone, text is not searchable etc. It's like a PDF containing a bitmap.
My questions is:
- Can Scribus import single-page PDFs into image frames such that the vector information is retained?
- Or is this not possible in the first place? If it is possible, how can I achieve this?
Windows 7 32 bit