Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-31 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
orted into Writer, then Draw. Is there an easy way to do that? Thanks so much, Charles. Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs From: "Paul D. Mirowsky" Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:05:36 -0500 To: users@global.libreoffice.org I've used Inkscape to break up PDFs.

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-30 Thread Paul D. Mirowsky
I've used Inkscape to break up PDFs. However, I prefer to have everything in Writer natural rather than as an image. It's a mix of deleting oversized areas (objects), cut and paste (text) and export. Hope it helps On 1/28/2014 8:41 PM, charles meyer wrote: I've got 3 or so separate PDF file

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Peter West on Thu, 30 Jan 2014 11:53:32 +1000 Thanks Peter. It works as you described. The quirk to watch out for is to drag the page to be inserted after the existing page and NOT below the cutoff line on the thumbnail list. If you put it below the line then when you sav

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Peter West
It's a bit fiddly. You need to experiment a bit, because there are certain quirks in the process, and I don't remember them all off the top of my head. For example, you may find that you can only insert a page in front of an existing page, in which case, you will have to work from the last doc

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/29/2014 10:39 AM, Cley Faye wrote: 2014-01-29 Anthony Baldwin When clients send me pdf files full of images to be translated, I often just snap a screenshot of them and manage the images in GIMP. In such cases, I am reconstructing their document in LO (in English, whereas the originals

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Leif Lodahl
Yes you can. LibreOffice is great pdf mabipulator. Open Draw and select file - open. Select each pdf file one by one. This will open the files in indiviual windows. In the left panel you can select single or multible pages and copy. Paste the pages into the left panel of another Draw window. Cont

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Cliff Scott
** Reply to message from Peter West on Wed, 29 Jan 2014 23:04:39 +1000 Peter, Could you explain off list how to do it with Preview? I've looked it over and there is no obvious way I can see to do it. Thanks. Cliff > Another way to manipulate PDFs is with PDFBox. > https://pdfbox.apache.org/ind

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Wed, 29 Jan 2014 09:52:32 -0500, Anthony Baldwin a écrit : > On 1/29/2014 10:07 AM, Dominique Michel wrote: > > Le Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:41:42 -0500, > > charles meyer a écrit : > > > >> I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. > >> > >> I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Off

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Cley Faye
2014-01-29 Anthony Baldwin > When clients send me pdf files full of images to be translated, > I often just snap a screenshot of them and manage the images in GIMP. > In such cases, I am reconstructing their document in LO (in English, > whereas the originals come to me in any of French, Portugu

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 1/29/2014 10:07 AM, Dominique Michel wrote: Le Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:41:42 -0500, charles meyer a écrit : I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2 Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic imag

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Dominique Michel
Le Tue, 28 Jan 2014 20:41:42 -0500, charles meyer a écrit : > I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. > > I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office > 3.6.2.2 > > Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the > graphic image. > > Ex. 2 inches above and below

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Marcello Romani
Il 29/01/2014 02:41, charles meyer ha scritto: I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2 Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic image. Ex. 2 inches above and below the graphic on each page and a

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Cley Faye
2014-01-29 charles meyer > I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. > > I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2 > > Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic > image. > > Ex. 2 inches above and below the graphic on each page and a good 3 >

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-29 Thread Peter West
Another way to manipulate PDFs is with PDFBox. https://pdfbox.apache.org/index.html If you're on a Mac, you can just use Preview. However, these things are not designed to modify the layout of pages. PDF is a page definition format; it defines the layout of pages. There are only very limited c

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-28 Thread Anthony Baldwin
On 01/28/2014 09:50 PM, Don Myers wrote: Hi Charles, I'm not aware of any way to merge multiple pdf files using LO. The only way I know to merge pdf files with with pdftk. http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/ Works great. tony There are others on the list more knowledgeable t

Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-28 Thread Don Myers
Hi Charles, I'm not aware of any way to merge multiple pdf files using LO. There are others on the list more knowledgeable than I, so maybe it can be done. There is a free, open source program that I've used to merge multiple PDF files into one file called PDFsam. It is available for Linux, W

[libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

2014-01-28 Thread charles meyer
I've got 3 or so separate PDF files. I'd like to merge them all into one PDF file in Writer in Office 3.6.2.2 Each page of each PDF file has a lot of empty space around the graphic image. Ex. 2 inches above and below the graphic on each page and a good 3 inches on each side of each graphic is wh