Re: PDF Authoring tool, suggestions?

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:22:08 +0100
Anton Shterenlikht <mexas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 07:26:39AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote:
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Modulok wrote:
I'm looking for recommendations for a BSD-friendly, PDF authoring
tool (Not a viewer, see below.)

I have an image of a signature that I need to put into a PDF
document. I converted the original, un-signed PDF document to a
raster PNG, then used GIMP to place a photograph of the signature
where I need it. I then converted the PNG back to a PDF using
ImageMagick's 'convert' utility. The problem, is the PDF is now
HUGE. Both in dimensions as well as file size. It went from 28kb
to 292Kb. There must be a better way to do this.

Convert the PNG to a JPEG file with the gimp, then use jpeg2ps from
the graphics/jpeg2ps-a4 or graphics/jpeg2ps-letter port to convert
it to PostScript. Finally, use epstopdf from print/teTeX-base or
ps2pdf from print/ghostscript8 to convert to PDF.

hard to get good quality because the result is likely to be a raster
image. Technically I'd do this with ImageMagick's composite - overlaps
one image over another, but the output pdf will be a poor quality
raster image and, yes, significantly bigger in size.


Don't know if I am missing the point here but why not use open office
to create your pdf file with its export as PDF feature?
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