Working with xfig (was: Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file)

2006-11-05 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi there, all. On Oct 26 2006, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > Skencil's interface is still a little clunky but I found it worked > better than xfig when editing the converted files. I have been working with xfig a lot to be stubborn even if people tell me that there are other tools that are better. Once

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:17:51PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ken Irving wrote: > > [snip] > > [Ken, quoting Wikipedia] > > > PDF is a file format instead of a programming language and for that > > reason it doesn't need to be interpreted. For instance, flow control > > commands like if and

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-28 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> Actually, PDF is not a programming language, contrary to Postscript. >> So it's much easier to deal with (and more difficult to introduce viruses >> into it, among other things). > Really? Can you explain more about this? I thought PDF was a subset of > Postscript with some kind of compression

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Kamaraju Kusumanchi([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > apt-cache search pdf > > wajig search pdf > > both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no > need to use them both. > I know that but he

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Ken Irving wrote: [snip] [Ken, quoting Wikipedia] PDF is a file format instead of a programming language and for that reason it doesn't need to be interpreted. For instance, flow control commands like if and loop are removed, while graphics commands such as lineto remain. I dunno who

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Ken Irving
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 11:17:22AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > Stefan Monnier wrote: > > someone wrote: > >> > >>AFAIK: PDF is not strictly speaking a vector-graphics format. It is > >>a subset of Postscript, which is actually a programming language for > >>drawing > >>documents. It is design

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Hodgins Family
> > > >> Scribus is probably your best bet for actually importing a PDF in any > >> friendly way -- I think they were at least working on that, not sure if it > >> is really usable > >> > > > > Hmm... never heard of it. Looks interesting. I don't know how to make it > > read PDF, tho. >

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Matthew Krauss
Stefan Monnier wrote: What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. You don't ask much, do you? No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:02:44 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. pdfcrop can "extract" rectangular ar

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? >> In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only >> saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. > You don't ask much, do you? No, indeed. Mac OS X's `preview' does it out of the box. > > AFAI

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-26, 12:02:44 (-0400) skrifaði Stefan Monnier: > > What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. This tool is not in debian but could do

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > apt-cache search pdf > wajig search pdf both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no need to use them both. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.b

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > } Stefan Monnier wrote: > } >What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > } >In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > } >saved as a bitmap,

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: } Stefan Monnier wrote: } >What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? } >In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only } >saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. } > } >

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Stefan Monnier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. apropos pdf apt-cache search pdf wajig

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Krauss
Stefan Monnier wrote: What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. Stefan You don't ask much, do you? AFAIK: PDF is not strictly speaking

How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble