El jue, 16-04-2015 a las 00:23 +0200, su_v escribió:
On 2015-04-15 22:45 (+0200), joakim@...1974... wrote:
Inkscape cannot edit the PDF content directly, and we should not pretend it does (or ever will).
My recommendation to users:
- open/import the PDF file
- edit as needed
- save as Inkscape SVG
- export (save a copy) as PDF when needed
- always edit the Inkscape SVG, never the exported PDF file
The cited workflow might be "ok" for one specific use case: one-time editing of a single-page PDF file (with varying results).
I agree.
What I'm going to add is implicitly present in V's comment, but it also makes a case against one-time editing of a single page PDF: Even though the appearance of a PDF imported in inkscape file may look right, some important information could be discarded. That's specially relevant in press-ready PDFs. CMYK PDFs will be converted to CMYK, "special" PDF versions like PDF/X-3 are going to lose all the features that make them "press-ready" like reference icc profiles, overprints, spots colors, etc. This also applies to Adobe Illustrator files that are based on PDF. Those files are widely used for distributing corporate logos and designs, and it's not rare to find features that are not supported by inkscape, like blending modes (applied for instance to make shadows transparent, by blending a black to white gradient with multiply over color).
Being able to overwrite a PDF you just open is more likely to case troubles than not. And that's another case for separating export and save, but I'll leave it for now :-D
Gez.