Re: How to stretch a GIMP image and rebuild as a PDF file.

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Author: Michael Havens
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Subject: Re: How to stretch a GIMP image and rebuild as a PDF file.
thanks brian. How do I access the poppler utilities package and the pdfmod
package?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 12:09 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:

> Next time you might want to try using pdfseperate from the
> poppler-utilities package. I believe that you will find that it pulls your
> PDF apart into seperate pages otherwise completely intact.
>
> You might also want to take a look at pdfmod from the pdfmod package. It
> will allow you to rotate, extract, remove and reorder pages via drag and
> drop.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
>
> On 07/14/2013 09:44 AM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> I have a PDF file that I needed to separate the pages of. So i loaded it
>> into gscan2pdf and deleted the pages I didn't need. Unfortunately one of
>> the pages was a legal sized paper and apparently gscan2pdf doesn't like
>> legal paper so it scrunched it down to standard paper size. That would
>> be fine except it scrunched all the other pages by the same aspect thus
>> leading to scewed pages. That's fine, I'll open the pages with GIMP and
>> stretch the pages back to normal size..... how to do that? The solution
>> is to scale the image then to export the image as a pdf. Unfortunately,
>> When you save the image it only saves one page. The solution? Open
>> gscan2pdf, open each individual image, and then save it again making
>> sure that in the save dialog "All" is selected in "PageRange". Aren't
>> you proud of me? I figured it out. I'm sending this in case anyone else
>> has the same problem. My "Question" turned into a "How-To".
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
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