Sorry Lisa about my non eco friendly comment. WOW Brian. You are so right about MAste PDF Editor. It is so easy. :-)~MIKE~(-: On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 12:25 AM, Lisa Kachold wrote: > Mike-ster, my friend, > > On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > >> actually.... I guess it is easier to print it up, fill it in, scan it in >> then gscan2pdf! >> :-)~MIKE~(-: >> > > OMG, no! It is NOT easier to manually print, fill out and scan back in! > Also, the environmental impact of all this printing and marking up, re > scanning and printing needs to be considered. > > As someone with a tree tatoo'd on my left ring finger, I completely > appreciate any PDF munging that saves the resources of our beautiful > planet. > >> >> >> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:46 PM, Brian Cluff wrote: >> >>> You have to repeat the same process for every page in your PDF and then >>> set the page number of the PDF to import in the image preferences. >>> >>> Far from ideal, but good for some things in a pinch. >>> >>> You can also load PDFs visually perfect into the GIMP, but then you will >>> truly be out of the vector world all together... but again, good for some >>> things in a pinch. >>> >>> Brian Cluff >>> >>> >>> On 05/31/2013 08:15 PM, Michael Havens wrote: >>> >>>> how did you do it? >>>> :-)~MIKE~(-: >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Mark Phillips >>>> >> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I have edited multi-page PDFs before with scribus. >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> On May 31, 2013 5:18 PM, "Brian Cluff" >>> > wrote: >>>> >>>> Ah, thanks, that worked. That appears to convert the PDF over >>>> to a bitmap graphic. I think I would put it between inkscape >>>> and openoffice as far as usefulness. On the one hand it does >>>> render the PDF perfectly, on the other hard it's now a graphic >>>> so it can't be edited, and on a third hand of a mutant, it only >>>> works a page at a time. >>>> >>>> It is useful if all you want to do is add to a document or fill >>>> out a few blanks, on a PDF not designed to be filled out, for >>>> printing. >>>> >>>> Thanks for the tip, >>>> Brian Cluff >>>> >>>> On 05/31/2013 04:40 PM, Mark Phillips wrote: >>>> >>>> Brian, >>>> >>>> Scribus does not import pdfs. You have to open a blank >>>> document, and >>>> then insert a graphics object. You import the pdf into the >>>> graphics >>>> object. Stretch the graphics object to fit the area of the >>>> page you >>>> want. Then, insert text objects into the graphics object and >>>> type away. >>>> Save the document; export to pdf, ignore errors, and enjoy! >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> On May 31, 2013 3:26 PM, "Brian Cluff" >>> >>>> >> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I knew scribus would export PDFs, and is quite good at >>>> it, but I >>>> hadn't realized that it would also import them. >>>> That being said, I just tried importing a number of >>>> PDFs and it did >>>> a terrible job. Basically the documents were >>>> unrecognizable. >>>> >>>> Is this typical behavior for scribus, or am I doing >>>> something wrong? >>>> >>>> Brian Cluff >>>> >>>> On 05/31/2013 07:56 AM, Mark Phillips wrote: >>>> >>>> I use Scribus to addr content to pdf files. >>>> >>>> There is more detail in the thread here - >>>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/____** >>>> lurker/message/20121017.____**174639.6dd87023.en.html >>>> >>> 174639.6dd87023.en.html >>>> > >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> 174639.6dd87023.en.html >>>> >>> 174639.6dd87023.en.html >>>> >> >>>> >>>> Mark >>>> >>>> I'd swear I asked this but it isn't in the >>>> archives. Hans said >>>> something >>>> about acrostar but that was 7 years ago and I was >>>> wondering if >>>> anything >>>> new (better)has come about that allows us to input >>>> text onto a >>>> pdf. 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