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Speaking of large PDFs... Keep in mind that PDFs are vector based
files and when you open them in GIMP it converts them to bitmap and
any PDF saved out of GIMP will simply be a bitmap file embedded in a
PDF file and therefore will be hundreds of times the size of the
original PDF document.<br>
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The better program to use would be to use Inkscape which will
preserve the the vector nature of the PDF files and keep them small.<br>
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Also I believe that using convert on a PDF will also convert all the
pages to bitmap files, even the ones that you didn't load into
GIMP. The better program to use would be PDF Toolkit (pdftk) or pdf
shuffler to merge you document together intact without converting
the image to another format.<br>
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You can also take a look at master PDF that will allow you to edit
PDFs directly. It's proprietary software, but it's also got a free
edition that might work for what you are doing:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/">https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/</a><br>
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Brian Cluff<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/01/2017 05:12 PM, Michael wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">very cool! figured out how to do it on my own.
<div>steps:</div>
<div>Edit files</div>
<div>Save files</div>
<div>run the command convert</div>
<div>"convert -adjoin <file to join1> <file to join
2>.... <joined file name>" </div>
<div>Not practical if the pdf is a large document though.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Michael
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<div dir="ltr">Very cool. I can now put my signature on PDFs
with GIMP. But there is a slight problem. I ave to save
each page individually How do I save the PDF to be as it
was originally?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br
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