[Gimp-user] print 2 pages to PDF file

[John Culleton]

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.

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