Hi.
In preview you can split and join PDFs. Print the individual page or
groups of pages you want as a pdf.
Then in preview open the first pdf, drag subsequent PDFs into the
thumbnail side bar viewer thingy in the order you want and then save the
whole thing as your new PDF.
As for editing, if the text is text, I can edit it in Draw.
If the text is an image, opening in Gimp enables me to delete the
current text (to a white background) and then type in new text with the
text tool. From Gimp I can print to file as a PDF.
Then join the PDFs in Preview.
steve
On 15/08/11 8:44 AM, R. Derek Pattison wrote:
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
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