I have edited multi-page PDFs before with scribus.
Mark
On May 31, 2013 5:18 PM, "Brian Cluff" <
brian@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@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>
>> <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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