How to stretch a GIMP image and rebuild as a PDF file.

[Brian Cluff]

You have to install them:
sudo apt-get install poppler-utilities pdfmod

Brian Cluff

On 07/14/2013 02:31 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> it seems  pdfmod is the utility and I can  not find pdf separate. Is
> this in GIMP?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> wrote:
>
>     pdfmod should be in your menu, and I would try using it first.
>     pdfseparate is a command line utility.
>
>     Just go into an empty directory and them do:
>     pdfseperate /path/to/your.pdf
>
>     and it will split your PDF into a separate PDF file per page.
>
>     You can use pdfmod to put a separated PDF back together.
>
>     Brian
>
>
>     On 07/14/2013 12:52 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>         thanks brian. How do I access the poppler utilities package and the
>         pdfmod package?
>         :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
>         On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com
>         <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>
>         <mailto:brian at snaptek.com <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>>> wrote:
>
>              Next time you might want to try using pdfseperate from the
>              poppler-utilities package.  I believe that you will find
>         that it
>              pulls your PDF apart into seperate pages otherwise
>         completely intact.
>
>              You might also want to take a look at pdfmod from the pdfmod
>              package. It will allow you to rotate, extract, remove and
>         reorder
>              pages via drag and drop.
>
>              Brian Cluff
>
>
>              On 07/14/2013 09:44 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>                  I have a PDF file that I needed to separate the pages
>         of. So i
>                  loaded it
>                  into gscan2pdf and deleted the pages I didn't need.
>                  Unfortunately one of
>                  the pages was a legal sized paper and apparently gscan2pdf
>                  doesn't like
>                  legal paper so it scrunched it down to standard paper
>         size. That
>                  would
>                  be fine except it scrunched all the other pages by the same
>                  aspect thus
>                  leading to scewed pages. That's fine, I'll open the
>         pages with
>                  GIMP and
>                  stretch the pages back to normal size..... how to do
>         that? The
>                  solution
>                  is to scale the image then to export the image as a pdf.
>                  Unfortunately,
>                  When you save the image it only saves one page. The
>         solution? Open
>                  gscan2pdf, open each individual image, and then save it
>         again making
>                  sure that in the save dialog "All" is selected in
>         "PageRange".
>                  Aren't
>                  you proud of me? I figured it out. I'm sending this in case
>                  anyone else
>                  has the same problem. My "Question" turned into a "How-To".
>                  :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
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