Can you please elaborate on this? Would you expect the PDF be displayed in the drawing, similar like an image or that the contents of the PDF file would be imported as lines, arcs, etc?

Hi Andrew, thanks for reviewing this, I know you are busy.

I was thinking that it would be very useful to import a PDF file as lines etc... yes, but to import a PDF as an image would be equally useful indeed.

Regards

Clive

There are existing solutions to convert PDF to DXF, also free ones:
https://www.google.com/search?q=convert%20pdf%20to%20dxf

The results are probably not very impressive or useful though: PDF is a presentation format while DXF contains the original data structures. A DXF to PDF conversion is irreversible, I'm afraid.

Okay thanks for your time on this. I know it can be done successfully, because I am able to use Adobe Illustrator to import a PDF file and it will cleanly convert to lines etc... I just thought it would be very useful if QCAD could do the same, so I could miss out using Illustrator.

For those interested, oss alternative for Adobe Illustrator is Inkscape, https://inkscape.org/en/
You can import PDF and export DXF..

There are pdf files with vectors.
A must for plans in Belgium.