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Mike-ster, my friend,

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Michael Havens <> 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 <> 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
>>> < <mailto:mark@**phillipsmarketing.biz<>>>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I have edited multi-page PDFs before with scribus.

>>>
>>>     Mark

>>>
>>>     On May 31, 2013 5:18 PM, "Brian Cluff" <
>>>     <mailto: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" <
>>>             <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>
>>>             <mailto: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 -
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>>> >>
>>>
>>>                      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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