>On Saturday 13 June 2009 05:52:10 am Carusoswi wrote: >> So, if I import a multi-page pdf, all pages are imported as >> separate layers? How does one turn them into separate pages? >> Caruso >> >> >On 06/12/09 04:32, Sven Neumann wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 -0400, James wrote: >> >>> I have a 2 page PDF that I read into The Gimp and modified. >> >>> Now I want to print is back out to PDF. >> >>> I can only seem to print page 1 even though I said to print >> >>> all pages. >> >> >> >> You imported the PDF pages as layers into a single image. And >> >> now you are printing the image, so only the upper layer is >> >> visible on the printout. You need to turn your layers into >> >> individual images and print them separately. Or turn off >> >> visibility of the upper layer so that the other page becomes >> >> visible, then print again. >> >> >> >> >> >> Sven >> > >> >Is there a way to combine two pdf files into one file? > >If you save layers individually following Sven's advice, then they >become separate files. But unless you are doing more than you >state, I would bring up the base file in Acrobat Reader and then >print each page "to file" with different names of course. This >gives you x number of separate Postscript files. Conversion back to >pdf's is easily done with the Ghostscript script ps2pdf. An >hpefully the text etc. is preserved as text and not as bitmaps. > >There are horses for courses and tools for tasks. Gimp is not >primarily a pdf or ps tool. That area hasn't changed in years >AFAIK. > > Alternatively, if you don't have Acrobat Pro, print each layer to pdf with, e.g., CutePDF Writer (http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp), then combine the seperate pdfs with PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam: http://www.pdfsam.org/).
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