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As of 1.5.x versions of Scribus, you can now import PDFs as vector graphics files. Previously, all you could do would have been to rasterize a PDF into an image frame. This leaves you with some limited and in some cases less than ideal ways you can edit the frame. Now with the ability to bring PDFs as vectors, you will be able to use the vector editing abilities already built-in to Scribus. Here I want to go through an example of how this might be useful.

The Scenario

Having installed a digital timer for some lighting which has the ability to have lights automatically come on at dusk, off at dawn, you can also have the switch automatically adjust to the season of the year and even Daylight Savings Time. As you can imagine, the controls are a bit complicated, and since this is a wall switch, very cryptic. Having lost the instructions some time ago, I decided to download them, which happened to be in PDF form. There were two pages, which I tried printing out directly, which reminded me that even with the instructions that came with the device, the print was so small I had to use a magnifying glass to read parts of it.

So let's use Scribus to improve on the original.

Initial Import

Here you see the result after initially importing to a US Letter page in landscape orientation. It spills off the page, but I had already decided that I only needed the bottom section, so the plan was to cut out everything I didn't need, like the parts about installing the switch. All I really need at this point is the instructions on setting the device.