edit PDF

[Brian Cluff]

Speaking of large PDFs... Keep in mind that PDFs are vector based files 
and when you open them in GIMP it converts them to bitmap and any PDF 
saved out of GIMP will simply be a bitmap file embedded in a PDF file 
and therefore will be hundreds of times the size of the original PDF 
document.

The better program to use would be to use Inkscape which will preserve 
the the vector nature of the PDF files and keep them small.

Also I believe that using convert on a PDF will also convert all the 
pages to bitmap files, even the ones that you didn't load into GIMP.  
The better program to use would be PDF Toolkit (pdftk) or pdf shuffler 
to merge you document together intact without converting the image to 
another format.

You can also take a look at master PDF that will allow you to edit PDFs 
directly.  It's proprietary software, but it's also got a free edition 
that might work for what you are doing: 
https://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor/

Brian Cluff


On 11/01/2017 05:12 PM, Michael wrote:
> very cool! figured out how to do it on my own.
> steps:
> Edit files
> Save files
> run the command convert
> "convert -adjoin <file to join1> <file to join 2>.... <joined file name>"
> Not practical if the pdf is a large document though.
>
> On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 7:47 PM, Michael <bmike1 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Very cool. I can now put my signature on PDFs with GIMP. But there
>     is a slight problem. I ave to save each page individually How do I
>     save the PDF to be as it was originally?
>
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