PDF editor supporting cut & paste of PDF graphics
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I've searched here and elsewhere and will continue, but was hoping for a shortcut in finding an open-source (or otherwise free) PDF editor supporting cutting and pasting of PDF graphics (as well as text) so as to enable the creation of one PDF doc from two or more (for post-SUF processing, aka Cheap Man's Layout).
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Hi Brookfoxe, Solo et all.
pdfill is a free and very good editor the will also add selected PDF's to an existing PDF.
Here'tiz
http://www.pdfill.com/dtr
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I don't think the Foxit product will do cut and paste, but I'll give another look.
I actually have PDFill PDF Tools installed already but found it somehow lacking. Must re-try. I'll report back.
Thanks much for the leads.
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So far, no go with either of these. Free Foxit is a reader only, I think. PDFill tools has a merge, as in add pages, but not cut and paste, and as it is menu-driven it is very hard to know what your input will produce: you are driving blindly. For example, to crop a PDF you specify margins without ever seeing the page or a ruler. Even accepting the limitations and the results for me were inconsistent. With experimentation maybe one could come up with something, but I'm skeptical.
Anybody use these tools, or others, to cut and paste areas of two or more pages into one?
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Brookefox, Adobe reader allows you to make images that can be edited by any image editor. Then print to a pdf printer driver like PrimoPDF. Its good to learn to work in this way, as you become accustom to working with many different image formats.
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Thanks, HDT. I'd like to keep all as high res HDR PDF for printing (so I don't want to save as another image format and come back to PDF, though my reader does not allow this anyway: I can only save a copy or save as text. Perhaps you are using Acrobat or another Adobe program?).
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Brookefox, As I am not in the publishing business, 300 - 600 dpi is as much as my printers are capable of, at best my current work is at 300 dpi, so I don't have any problems. It is reader that I use, the camera icon on the menu bar. If you don't see this ????
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Brookdfox, If you can't see the camera icon on your acrobat reader, from the menu bar view > toolbars > more tools, find and select the camera icon.
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Yes, thanks, HDT, I can take a snap and paste it elsewhere and that may be all I can do as I'm having no luck otherwise. PDF-XChange viewer seems to give a slighly better res than Reader (96 vs. 72 DPI, which is also what SU exports at (?)), FYI, and has other tools. Gai said somewhere, sometime, and it seems reasonable,
@unknownuser said:Well, with a screen capture app. you cannot make higher resolution images accurately than your screen resolution. What if there are finer details within the accuracy of your drawing?
But the HLR image, if I could cut and paste it, would offer much higher res, or at least that's the idea I'm laboring with.
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I don't know about that, but Claire said this:
@unknownuser said:SU exports are at 72 dpi. If I need a nice crisp drawing, I do the
following: In the Export 2D Graphic Dialogue Box, go to Options.
Uncheck "Use view size" and set a larger image size. I like my images
to be 300 dpi for the most part, so if I want a 10" wide image, I set
the width to (300 dpi x 10") = 3000 pixels. Then use photo editing
software to reset the size and dpi before you send to your client.(above at http://groups.google.com/group/sketchuphowto/browse_thread/thread/a98322b32103813f# )
I'll try it when my ATI driver gives me a chance.
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I now understand the problem. OK, One way around it is to find a tif, or jpg printer driver that adobe reader can print to. Can't suggest one, as the one I use is no longer distributed.
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@unknownuser said:
SU exports are at 72 dpi. If I need a nice crisp drawing, I do the
following: In the Export 2D Graphic Dialogue Box, go to Options.
Uncheck "Use view size" and set a larger image size. I like my images
to be 300 dpi for the most part, so if I want a 10" wide image, I set
the width to (300 dpi x 10") = 3000 pixels. Then use photo editing
software to reset the size and dpi before you send to your client.This does not work for me. I would think that SU asks to set image size if other than view it might remain at 72 dpi max, though it does seem to export as you input for the view, thereby upping the res for the view, somewhat contrary to the dialog: it is still the view but at a higher res. But then when I import the supposedly higher res image it looks no better, even worse as it is more gray, less black, even after converting to 2 color (black and white, and sharpening). Probably for an attempted line drawing export, anti-alias should be 'off'???
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