Thanks everyone! Derek
On Aug 14, 2011, at 5:11 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: > Hi. > In preview you can split and join PDFs. Print the individual page or groups > of pages you want as a pdf. > Then in preview open the first pdf, drag subsequent PDFs into the thumbnail > side bar viewer thingy in the order you want and then save the whole thing as > your new PDF. > > As for editing, if the text is text, I can edit it in Draw. > If the text is an image, opening in Gimp enables me to delete the current > text (to a white background) and then type in new text with the text tool. > From Gimp I can print to file as a PDF. > > Then join the PDFs in Preview. > > steve > > On 15/08/11 8:44 AM, R. Derek Pattison wrote: >> So to clear a couple things up, first I am on a Mac, not Linux. Secondly, >> there is no particular reason I /have/ to use LibreOffice to edit the PDFs, >> I could use another PDF editor, but since OpenOffice was a suggestion given >> in a GoogleSearch, and I already used LibreOffice, I thought I would try it. >> Also, I was hoping to use something free, since this is not for anything >> professional, just for personal purposes. >> >> I’ve used Preview on my Mac, and it does like 75% of what I want, but the >> ability to copy pages from one PDF to another and merge them or cut one PDF >> into multiple ones eludes me, which is why I was trying with LibreOffice. >> But as I said, it tends to try and read the pictures of words as text, and >> since the scans aren’t that great, it ends up just being gobbledygook. >> >> I tried the plugin suggested in a previous post, but that was already >> installed in my default install of LibreOffice. >> >> I will try GIMP and maybe some other image editors and see if they work for >> what I need. Any other suggestions are welcome! >> >> Thanks, >> Derek >> >> On Aug 14, 2011, at 2:44 PM, Steve Edmonds wrote: >> >>> Hi Tom. >>> You should be able to "Print to PDF" from Gimp. >>> steve >>> >>> On 15/08/11 6:34 AM, Tom Davies wrote: >>>> Hi :) >>>> Ahah, I edit pictures and stuff in Pdfs using Gimp. Draw might do it and >>>> now >>>> the official Draw documentation has been released i might be a bit more >>>> happy >>>> about trying Draw. The problem with doing this using Gimp is that i can't >>>> save >>>> as pdf from Gimp. >>>> >>>> Regards from >>>> Tom :) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> ________________________________ >>>> From: Johnny Rosenberg<gurus.knu...@gmail.com> >>>> To: users@global.libreoffice.org >>>> Sent: Sun, 14 August, 2011 7:34:13 >>>> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw >>>> >>>> 2011/8/14 planas<jsloz...@gmail.com>: >>>>> Hi Derek, >>>>> >>>>> On Sat, 2011-08-13 at 22:22 -0400, R. Derek Pattison wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Jorge, >>>>>> >>>>>> Basically I want to do some minor editing of the pictures in the PDF. >>>>>> Delete >>>>>> some pages, move some from one document to another, delete parts of >>>>>> pages. The >>>>>> problem is that LibreOffice is trying to interpret the text in the >>>>>> images as >>>>>> text and that makes it unreadable. I just want to edit them as images. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>> Derek >>>> Why do you need to do that in LibreOffice? There are other software >>>> out there, you know… Tried PDF edit? If you have Ubuntu it's in the >>>> repositories (or ”sudo apt-get install pdfedit” in a terminal). >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Johnny Rosenberg >>>> ジョニー・ローゼンバーグ >>>> >>> -- >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >>> 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 >> > > -- > For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org > 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 -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org 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
