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.
it seems pdfmod is the utility and I can not find pdf separate. Is this
in GIMP?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Brian Cluff <> wrote:

> pdfmod should be in your menu, and I would try using it first. pdfseparate
> is a command line utility.
>
> Just go into an empty directory and them do:
> pdfseperate /path/to/your.pdf
>
> and it will split your PDF into a separate PDF file per page.
>
> You can use pdfmod to put a separated PDF back together.
>
> Brian
>
>
> On 07/14/2013 12:52 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
>
>> 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 <
>> <mailto:brian@snaptek.com>> 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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