Hi,

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 -0400, James wrote:

I have a 2 page PDF that I read into The Gimp and modified. Now I want to print is back out to PDF. I can only seem to print page 1 even though I said to print all pages.

You imported the PDF pages as layers into a single image. And now you are printing the image, so only the upper layer is visible on the printout. You need to turn your layers into individual images and print them separately. Or turn off visibility of the upper layer so that the other page becomes visible, then print again.

Sven

So, if I import a multi-page pdf, all pages are imported as separate layers? How does one turn them into separate pages? Caruso

On 06/12/09 04:32, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 -0400, James wrote:

I have a 2 page PDF that I read into The Gimp and modified. Now I want to print is back out to PDF. I can only seem to print page 1 even though I said to print all pages.

You imported the PDF pages as layers into a single image. And now you are printing the image, so only the upper layer is visible on the printout. You need to turn your layers into individual images and print them separately. Or turn off visibility of the upper layer so that the other page becomes visible, then print again.

Sven

Is there a way to combine two pdf files into one file?

On Saturday 13 June 2009 05:52:10 am Carusoswi wrote:

So, if I import a multi-page pdf, all pages are imported as separate layers? How does one turn them into separate pages? Caruso

On 06/12/09 04:32, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 -0400, James wrote:

I have a 2 page PDF that I read into The Gimp and modified. Now I want to print is back out to PDF. I can only seem to print page 1 even though I said to print all pages.

You imported the PDF pages as layers into a single image. And now you are printing the image, so only the upper layer is visible on the printout. You need to turn your layers into individual images and print them separately. Or turn off visibility of the upper layer so that the other page becomes visible, then print again.

Sven

Is there a way to combine two pdf files into one file?

If you save layers individually following Sven's advice, then they become separate files. But unless you are doing more than you state, I would bring up the base file in Acrobat Reader and then print each page "to file" with different names of course. This gives you x number of separate Postscript files. Conversion back to pdf's is easily done with the Ghostscript script ps2pdf. An hpefully the text etc. is preserved as text and not as bitmaps.

There are horses for courses and tools for tasks. Gimp is not primarily a pdf or ps tool. That area hasn't changed in years AFAIK.

Hi,

On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 11:52 +0200, Carusoswi wrote:

So, if I import a multi-page pdf, all pages are imported as separate layers? How does one turn them into separate pages?

There's a choice in the Import from PDF dialog. If you ask it to import the pages as individual images, then that's what you get.

GIMP doesn't know anything about the concept of pages. It is not a PDF editor. That's why PDF can not be opened in GIMP, only imported.

Sven

On Saturday 13 June 2009 05:52:10 am Carusoswi wrote:

So, if I import a multi-page pdf, all pages are imported as separate layers? How does one turn them into separate pages? Caruso

On 06/12/09 04:32, Sven Neumann wrote:

Hi,

On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 18:14 -0400, James wrote:

I have a 2 page PDF that I read into The Gimp and modified. Now I want to print is back out to PDF. I can only seem to print page 1 even though I said to print all pages.

You imported the PDF pages as layers into a single image. And now you are printing the image, so only the upper layer is visible on the printout. You need to turn your layers into individual images and print them separately. Or turn off visibility of the upper layer so that the other page becomes visible, then print again.

Sven

Is there a way to combine two pdf files into one file?

If you save layers individually following Sven's advice, then they become separate files. But unless you are doing more than you state, I would bring up the base file in Acrobat Reader and then print each page "to file" with different names of course. This gives you x number of separate Postscript files. Conversion back to pdf's is easily done with the Ghostscript script ps2pdf. An hpefully the text etc. is preserved as text and not as bitmaps.

There are horses for courses and tools for tasks. Gimp is not primarily a pdf or ps tool. That area hasn't changed in years AFAIK.

Alternatively, if you don't have Acrobat Pro, print each layer to pdf with, e.g., CutePDF Writer (http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp), then combine the seperate pdfs with PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam: http://www.pdfsam.org/).

2010.04.13. 6:33 keltezéssel, johnb írta:

Alternatively, if you don't have Acrobat Pro, print each layer to pdf with, e.g., CutePDF Writer (http://www.cutepdf.com/products/cutepdf/Writer.asp), then combine the seperate pdfs with PDF Split and Merge (pdfsam: http://www.pdfsam.org/).

Thank you for the tip!
I have been missing a tool like pdfsam for ages!

Abel