On Wednesday 01 December 2004 22:03, Paraplegic Racehorse wrote: > Craig Bradney wrote: > >On Wednesday 01 December 2004 21:36, Paraplegic Racehorse wrote: > >>I've been trying to import a three page PDF file into a document. It > >>seems I can only get page one to appear in a graphic frame and can't > >>seem to figure out how to make the additional PDF pages spill over to > >>other frams on other pages. Any tips? > > > >Tip 1: Dont beat your head against the wall > >Tip 2: Scribus wont do what you wish to do, in current form > >Tip 3: The future is bright > > Thanks, Craig. I had already figured as much. I do believe that I will > just send the original PDF to my Mac, break it up there with the > ever-so-friendly Preview.app and send the resulting files back to my > Linux machine, where all the layout work is being done. It's ugly, but > it should work.
Pleeeease don't. I am not impressed with some of the things I've seen the way preview app handles things. *shudder* If it is essential, please contact me off list and I'll crack it apart in real Acrobat. > >Now, Peter will probably come up with a list of tools to break up the PDF > > for you when he's back at the PC. > Two ways: 1) Easy, graphical with GSview 4.6 and preferably updated GS. (I'm running 8.33 beta happily) Open PDF, File > Convert > Use the pdfwrite "Device" Then select the page and convert. Pros: Click and point easy (done in 30 seconds) Cons: embedded or subset fonts will usually be converted to Type 3 fonts. Caution: from GSview you can only specify a max resolution of 720 dpi and there are loads of options in the GSview properties button. Safe choice: Parameters: PDFSETTINGS > use /prepress 2) Command line and scriptable: example: gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=p1.pdf -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH in.pdf or for page 2 gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=p2.pdf -dFirstPage=2 -dLastPage=2 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH in.pdf Scriptable: collect stdout via something like: if [ "`gs -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=p1.pdf -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH in.pdf`" != "" ] ; then exit Cautions: Default PDFwrite resolution 720 dpi. It can go higher, but GS will limit the page size to the Adobe limit of 32767 pixels I tested this with some OO PDF's and the results were pretty satisfactory. > Oh, goody, goody! > > Debating about filing a feature request in the bug tracker .... If it not there, please do it is a a very worthy feature. Cheers, Peter
