> On 07 Mar 2015, at 22:57, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/07/2015 01:50 PM, John Culleton wrote:
>> I am importing over 200 pdf pages into a series
>> of scribus 1.5.0 documents, 20 at a time.
>> The pdf documents were created in MSWierd with
>> the little tic marks at the corners and little
>> round symbols outside the edge of each
>> margin.
>> 
>> As it happens the Scribus 1.5.0 documents have
>> slightly larger page size than the input pages so
>> these unwanted markings show up. I have been
>> covering them up with white graphic patches, one
>> at a time.
>> Master pages appear under the imported pages,
>> and not over so that is no help.
>> 
>> Is there another way to set up these pages that
>> will cover up these marks? I suppose I could set
>> up in my sample file a single page with these
>> coverup patches on an upper layer and then dupe
>> these pages 20 times but that would require me to
>> import about 60 pages  already in sla files.
>> 
>> Any other thoughts?
>> 
> Just like other vector files, PDFs imported to 1.5.0 are editable. As a 
> vector file, it consists of grouped objects, and likely groups of groups. So 
> ungroup the imported PDF, click on the item of interest (you may have to 
> unselect the original first), and see whether it needs to be ungrouped 
> further. Even text will look like a text frame, but it will be an ungroupable 
> object, down to its individual glyphs.
> 
> Greg
> 



Are you able to increase your page margins and then turn on clip to page 
margins when you export to PDF?

Craig

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