How can I insert content from a PDF into my document?

[Andrew]

@JosiNeto

Thank you all! All your points are relevant, but there’s also another: inserting pages as SVG backgrounds turns impossible to select text on those pages (or so I think, I didn’t test this in Typst). This makes a document much less accessible to assistive technologies.

I found a comment by @LaurenzV that confirms that it will be possible in the next release: Allow inserting PDFs as figures · Issue #145 · typst/typst · GitHub. But I’m not 100% sure if this is already possible if compiled from source or not yet. You can try, if you want.

@JosiNeto

So yeah, I understand there are many technical considerations and difficulties, but I really think the ability to insert PDF pages is a must for Typst, as it’s a tool mostly geared towards technical, durable (and in this regard, accessible) documents.

A lot of people think this way, but for now we can only patiently wait for when the issue is resolved.