write on a pdf
Michael Havens
bmike1 at gmail.com
Fri Jun 7 14:27:40 MST 2013
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 <lisakachold at obnosis.com>wrote:
> Mike-ster, my friend,
>
> On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <brian at snaptek.com> 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
>>>> <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz <mailto:mark@**phillipsmarketing.biz<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have edited multi-page PDFs before with scribus.
>>>>
>>>> Mark
>>>>
>>>> On May 31, 2013 5:18 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at snaptek.com
>>>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>> 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" <brian at snaptek.com
>>>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>
>>>> <mailto:brian at snaptek.com <mailto:brian at snaptek.com>>>
>>>> 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<http://lists.phxlinux.org/____lurker/message/20121017.____174639.6dd87023.en.html>
>>>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**lurker/message/20121017.__**
>>>> 174639.6dd87023.en.html<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__lurker/message/20121017.__174639.6dd87023.en.html>
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/__**lurker/message/20121017.__**
>>>> 174639.6dd87023.en.html<http://lists.phxlinux.org/__lurker/message/20121017.__174639.6dd87023.en.html>
>>>> <http://lists.phxlinux.org/**lurker/message/20121017.**
>>>> 174639.6dd87023.en.html<http://lists.phxlinux.org/lurker/message/20121017.174639.6dd87023.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. (the
>>>> hans comment was in a thread with the words
>>>> 'fillable' and 'pdf'
>>>> in the
>>>> subject)
>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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