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

[Michael Havens]

the shell says they''re already installed.
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 8:35 PM, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:

> 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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