write on a pdf

[Brian Cluff]

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>> 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>
>
>         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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