Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF. hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size. -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44 (0)117 929 4423 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF. hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size. Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
Ltcddata wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. [snip] Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature? Unless something has changed very recently OpenOffice.org doesn't import .pdf's that already exist, which the OP indicates he needs in order to edit a pre-existing file. Inkscape, after a certain version number, has recently begun to be able to import .pdf. I used it only once to do something like what the OP described but have not used it extensively. -Mike ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
2009/4/17 Ltcddata ltcdd...@davids-website.com: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF. hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size. Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature? I would imagine it would give a large output file; a stated goal of the OP is to give a small output. Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) Not a tool, but a python library: print/py-reportlab2 It's flexible enough to solve your image-embedding problem. ;-) Suggestions? -Modulok- -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:47:28 +0100 Ltcddata ltcdd...@nildram.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF. hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size. Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 12:17:45 -0400, Michael Powell nightre...@verizon.net wrote: Ltcddata wrote: Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature? Unless something has changed very recently OpenOffice.org doesn't import .pdf's that already exist, which the OP indicates he needs in order to edit a pre-existing file. I think it would pe possible to use LaTeX in this case, too. The source PDF can be imported, but I think it needs to be converted to ps or eps before. Then, the modification (add) can be done with overlaying another image, and afterwards pdflatex (from the teTeX package) can be used to create a PDF document again. Anyway, while this is a possible way, it seems to be one of the most over-complicated ones. :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. Suggestions? -Modulok- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote: I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring tool (Not a viewer, see below.) I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this. Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) pgpUeS0cvY2rB.pgp Description: PGP signature
