On Sat, 7 Mar 2015 23:03:25 +0100 Craig Bradney <cbradney at scribus.info> wrote:
> > > 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 > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: signature.asc > Type: application/pgp-signature > Size: 163 bytes > Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail > URL: > <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20150307/176ecba0/attachment.bin> > ___ Scribus Mailing List: > scribus at lists.scribus.net Edit your options or > unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > > > _______________________________________________________ > Unlimited Disk, Data Transfer, PHP/MySQL Domain > Hosting http://www.doteasy.com That might be even cooler. I'll give that a try. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Updated PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus 1.4.5" coming soon at http://www.booklocker.com/!
