Re: [libreoffice-users] Opening PDF files in Draw

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.knugum@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<jslozier@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
>
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