On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 10:53:52 AM webmaster for Kracked Press Productions wrote: > I use Linux [Ubuntu 10.04] and there are several free PDF editing > packages for Linux. One should do what you want. > > You also can print PDF through the CUPS-PDF driver. So any package > that prints, like Firefox or Thunderbird, can have its output in a > PDF format. > > I am positive that there is a PDF-merge package that you can print out > PDF from several packages and merge them into one PDF document. I > did this myself in 2010 a few times, but I do not remember what the > package was called, but it was in the repository. > > On 01/24/2012 12:37 AM, upscope wrote: > > On Monday, January 23, 2012 09:32:29 PM Jeff Prater wrote: > >> Your best bet would be to convert your newsletter to a PDF > >> first. > >> Then, insert the form into the PDF using PDF authoring software > >> like Adobe Acrobat. That's what I would do. > > > > This will not work. First I use Linux, Second I cannot afford > > Adobe > > Acrobat which to the best of my knowledge does not have a Linux > > version. I can create pdf's from LibreOffice and Scribus. I have > > not had time to try this in Scribus, it is supposed to import > > pdf's, but latest update gives error on trying to open pdf. Need > > to report bug. > > > > Thanks for your reply anyway. > > > > In order to get bulletin out I just recreated the whole document > > as a pdf form in LibreOffice and then save whol bulletin as pdf. > > Alot of extra work. > > > >> ----- > >> Jeff Prater > >> > >> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 12:53 PM, upscope<upsc...@nwi.net> wrote: > >>> Is there a way to put a pdf form into a page of a newletter? I > >>> know you can create one, but this form was sent to me to be > >>> included in the newsletter so people can fill it in and then > >>> print it for mailing.> > >>> > >>> > From writer: > >>> CODE: > >>> ----------- > >>> > >>> file-->open and selected the document and file type as > >>> .pdf. > >>> > >>> /CODE: > >>> ------------- > >>> It opens the pdf in draw instead of the select document page > >>> in > >>> writer. I know I save it as an image and insert it but then > >>> the > >>> users will not beable to use it. > >>> > >>> Thanks for any ideas. > >>> -- > >>> Russ > >>> LibreOffice 3.4.5 OOO340m1 (Build:502) [from L.O> website] > >>> openSUSE 12.1(Linux 3.1.0-1.2-desktop x86_64)|KDE Platform > >>> Version 4.7.4 (4.7.4) Release "11"|Intel core2duo 2.5 MHZ, > >>> |8GB > >>> DDR3| GeForce 8400GS (NVIDIA-Linux-290.10-13.1.x86_64) > >>> > >>> -- > >>> For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: > >>> users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? > >>> http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsub > >>> scri be/ 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
Since I'm using openSUSE I will check repos for packages like you mentioned. I have tried pdfedit but it did not work, probably me, but I needed to get my bulletin out so I created in libroffice, then I save the whole bulletin as a pdf. Worked fine. Thanks for all the inputs. -- Russ -- 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