[PyX-user] insert/include PDF

[René Bastian]

2015.12.05

Guten Tage & Bonjour,

how to include PDF files ?

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René

[André Wobst]

Dear René,

well, I'm sorry, PyX cannot (yet) do that.

Best,


André

Post by René Bastian
2015.12.05
Guten Tage & Bonjour,
how to include PDF files ?
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René
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[Alan G Isaac]

If this is worth the effort to the OP, I wonder if a round trip would work?
First convert the PDF to EPS:
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20883/how-to-convert-pdf-to-eps
Then create your pyx image, importing the EPS with `epsinclude`.
Then if PDF output is needed, could this be exported to PDF?

This is really a question rather than an answer.

Alan Isaac

[André Wobst]

Hi,

well, you cannot embed EPS in PDF. (Somehow I have in mind that there actually is something like embedding postscript in PDF, which will not be rendered by a PDF renderer, but could be printed on Postscript printers, but I'm missing the details right now.)

What PyX really does for this case is to convert the EPS to a bitmap and put this bitmap in the PDF output. I added this years ago, as it was handy for me at some point in time. But it generates a warning and is by no means a proper embedding. (On the other side, yes, this is a way to go to somehow get other data embedded. Embed it as bitmap data. We can do so for Postscript, PDF and SVG, we support bitmap data for all those output formats.)

Still, our true goal is to be able embed PDF in PDF like we can embed Postscript in Postscript and SVG in SVG. (And for SVG we also have a parsed mode, which actually recreates the graphic data within PyX, with rather serious limitations though, but still quite useful in some cases.)

Right now we cannot embed PDF in PDF.

Best,


André

Post by Alan G Isaac
If this is worth the effort to the OP, I wonder if a round trip would work?
http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/20883/how-to-convert-pdf-to-eps
Then create your pyx image, importing the EPS with `epsinclude`.
Then if PDF output is needed, could this be exported to PDF?
This is really a question rather than an answer.
Alan Isaac
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