write on a pdf

[Mark Phillips]

I have edited multi-page PDFs before with scribus.

Mark
On May 31, 2013 5:18 PM, "Brian Cluff" <brian at 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 at snaptek.com
>> <mailto:brian at 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.**
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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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