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

On 8/14/2011 4:44 PM, 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

What you need is PDF Split and Merge (http://www.pdfsam.org/).  It is 
FOSS and there is a version for MACs.  You can split any pdf into 
separate files for each page and then recombine any mix you want into a 
new file.


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Gene Young

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