Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] Further direction/Roadmap

["frank gaude'" <tanzen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Alex Bligh wrote:
> frank gaude' wrote:
>
> > No PDF export in FOSS? Wonder how Scribus does it, gets away with it?
>
> We can get to PDF via the normal print to PDF route, but that loses
> lots of useful information, because it goes via PostScript.
>
> You can also (on the unstable version) get to PDF by exporting
> as PDF, but this is a cheat and just sticks one bitmap in the PDF.
>
> The Scribus guys wrote their own PDF exporter as I understand
> it from talking to them at Libre.

Yes, they wrote their own and it's open source.

PDF has to follow the standards, stay vector, scalable, and all that.

frank