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@snaptek.com
> <mailto:brian@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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