From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IFUsg-0003Gf-0p for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:01:50 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l6UD0WNk019857; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 13:00:32 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l6UCu9aA013718 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:56:16 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0AE0764DE4 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:56:16 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -0.317 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.317 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.318, BAYES_50=0.001] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id JRD7iHIdolTH for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:56:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88DF865038 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 12:56:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1IFUn4-0003wl-M0 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:56:02 +0200 Received: from p54a356c2.dip.t-dialin.net ([84.163.86.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:56:02 +0200 Received: from anno by p54a356c2.dip.t-dialin.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:56:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: "Anno v. Heimburg" Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Re: insert text onto a PDF Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 14:55:48 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20070725115953.GA4937@sympatico.ca> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54a356c2.dip.t-dialin.net User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 6985d70a-ae9b-45a2-b34e-13ab15fa1ad5 X-Archives-Hash: 9ee02d0e6dd7a8c002458284bbc270d9 Thufir wrote: > Gimp seems to be primary tool for this, though Well, not necessarily. Any graphics program that can load pdf would work for what you want to do. Gimp is one of them, but Krita can import pdf, too. Also, if you have the poppler and netpbm packages installed, you can use pdftoppm and the corresponsing ppmtowhatever to convert the input into a whole plethora of graphic formats, use whatever graphics program you like for editing, and then convert in a similar way. So given the right external converters, your graphics program doesn't need to know about pdf. The workflow is 1) pdf to editable picture format 2) edit picture 3) picture back to pdf. gimp and krita can do steps one and two in one go, but with the host of tools at your disposal, you can accomplish this in any number of ways. Anno. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list