** Reply to message from Peter West <[email protected]> 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/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 changes you can make. > > Changing layouts means going back to sources and re-creating the PDFs. > On 29/01/2014 2:32 pm, Anthony Baldwin wrote: > > 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 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, > >> Windows, and Mac. In Ubuntu there is an older version in the software > >> center. That is what I've used. It has always worked well. > >> > >> Don > >> > >> > >> > >> On 01/28/2014 08:41 PM, charles meyer wrote: > >>> 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 white, empty space. > >>> > >>> Is there a way to eliminate all the empty space around each graphic in > >>> in each page in each PDF or once all the PDFs are merged into one > >>> larger PDF? > >>> > >>> Thanks so much, > >>> > >>> Charles. -- To unsubscribe 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
