write on a pdf

[Michael Havens]

how did you do it?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Mark Phillips
<mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>wrote:

> 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.**
>>> 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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