So to clear a couple things up, first I am on a Mac, not Linux. Secondly, there is no particular reason I /have/ to use LibreOffice to edit the PDFs, I could use another PDF editor, but since OpenOffice was a suggestion given in a GoogleSearch, and I already used LibreOffice, I thought I would try it. Also, I was hoping to use something free, since this is not for anything professional, just for personal purposes.
I’ve used Preview on my Mac, and it does like 75% of what I want, but the ability to copy pages from one PDF to another and merge them or cut one PDF into multiple ones eludes me, which is why I was trying with LibreOffice. But as I said, it tends to try and read the pictures of words as text, and since the scans aren’t that great, it ends up just being gobbledygook. I tried the plugin suggested in a previous post, but that was already installed in my default install of LibreOffice. I will try GIMP and maybe some other image editors and see if they work for what I need. Any other suggestions are welcome! Thanks, Derek On Aug 14, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi Tom. > You should be able to "Print to PDF" from Gimp. > steve > > On 15/08/11 6:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> Ahah, I edit pictures and stuff in Pdfs using Gimp. Draw might do it and now >> the official Draw documentation has been released i might be a bit more happy >> about trying Draw. The problem with doing this using Gimp is that i can't >> save >> as pdf from Gimp. >> >> Regards from >> Tom :) >> >> >> >> >> ________________________________ >> From: Johnny Rosenberg<[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sun, 14 August, 2011 7:34:13 >> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw >> >> 2011/8/14 planas<[email protected]>: >>> Hi Derek, >>> >>> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 22:22 -0400, R. Derek Pattison wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Jorge, >>>> >>>> Basically I want to do some minor editing of the pictures in the PDF. >>>> Delete >>>> some pages, move some from one document to another, delete parts of pages. >>>> The >>>> problem is that LibreOffice is trying to interpret the text in the images >>>> as >>>> text and that makes it unreadable. I just want to edit them as images. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Derek >> Why do you need to do that in LibreOffice? There are other software >> out there, you know… Tried PDF edit? If you have Ubuntu it's in the >> repositories (or ”sudo apt-get install pdfedit” in a terminal). >> >> >> Regards >> >> Johnny Rosenberg >> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ >> > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
