gg wrote: > Sven Neumann wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 22:04 +0200, LightningIsMyName wrote: >> >> >>> 1. How will the user create multi-paged PDFs? Should he choose >>> different images, one for each page? (This sounds like the most >>> reasonable way compared to other ways I thought of). >>> >> Why would we want to allow the user to create multi-paged PDF files? >> >> Perhaps, before anything else, we need to clearly define what the >> purpose of PDF export is. We certainly don't want to provide a tool to >> create an illustrated book. That's what page layout applications are >> used for. >> >> >> Sven >> >> >> > > Indeed, what is the advantage of pdf export of a single image? > > Despite the current obsession with this format it is pretty clunky and > inflexible. I don't see much point for a single image. > > PDF would just be a simple wrapper and this would best be done by and > pdf editor that fully supports all the pdf features. It's unlikely gimp > would want to maintain full functionality just to do this export. > > The other question is licensing of pdf. IRCC pdf viewing is allowed in a > fairly liberal sense but creating pdf is what Abode make money on and > retains the rights to. > > I could be wrong but that was my recollection. Maybe. But my OpenOffice has "export as PDF" options in Impress (PowerPoint-like), Calc (Excel-like) and Writer (Word-like). OpenOffice is free and available, as we all know, for Windoze, MAC, and *nix. When I want a multipage PDF of a bunch of images, I write them to jpg, paste them into a Writer document, then export them to PDF. I know it's clunky, but it works. -- Burnie _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
