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
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