Support for reading PDFs

[mgalgs]

Are there any plans to add read support for the PDF format?

[wiredfool]

Yours is the first request I've heard.

It looks like it could be hacked in through ghostscript and the EpsImagePlugin without too much effort.

[radarhere]

Just the idea out there - rather than Ghostscript, this could also be done using ImageMagick, which has a more permissive license from my reading.

It's also worth noting that a consequence of the EPS conversion method would be that transparency is lost.

[radarhere]

It looks like it could be hacked in through ghostscript and the EpsImagePlugin without too much effort.

Just to note this here - I previously attempted to add support for opening PDFs, and encountered resistance to the idea of using other software to convert PDFs to another format. So perhaps this requires a more thorough approach.