Re: [libreoffice-users] Writer - Merging PDFs

On 1/29/2014 10:39 AM, Cley Faye wrote:
> 2014-01-29 Anthony Baldwin <baldwinlinguas@gmx.com>
>
> > When clients send me pdf files full of images to be translated,
> >   I often just snap a screenshot of them and manage the images in GIMP.
> > In such cases, I am reconstructing their document in LO (in English,
> > whereas the originals come to me in any of French, Portuguese or Spanish),
> > so then I just insert the images into the document in LO.
>
> Just a quick "offtopic" remark: you can directly open PDF in GIMP​​ in the
> resolution of your choice. This way you might be able to get better picture
> quality (if the picture in the PDF is also high quality of course). I tend
> to be on the cautious side and choose 300dpi, because sometime there's a
> picture in there that's actually very high definition and I don't want to
> notch it down with a simple screenshot :)

I did mention that possibility.
Most of those where I use screenshots are pdfs of scanned/photocopied 
documents, in black/white, and already in pretty poor quality.

> Draw can also be useful in your process, as you can directly select images.
> Assuming they didn't get chopped in multiple pieces, you can directly
> copy/paste images from Draw to Writer ;)

Wow! I had no idea this was possible!
Awesome!

Tony

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