Select the Create Multi-page PDF from Page Tiles option in the General section. In Illustrator, create a new document or open an existing Illustrator file with multiple-page tiles. If you create a new document, specify a custom width and height large enough for all the pages in the PDF file in the New Document dialog box. Short tutorial how to export multiple PDF page file directly from Inkscape with inkporter. Please remind yourself that this extension is still in the early s.
Today at work I had to edit a PDF that was block but I needed to change a small piece of info, so we could send it back to a client. I had no idea how to do it,so I read a bit and tried options like Calligra, pdfEdit, Okular and flpsed; however, the obvious way ended up being the right and easiest one… Inkscape.
You can do this using Inkscape's command line interface (inkscape -without-gui -export-pdf=myfile.pdf myfile.svg), and then use a batch file, shell script, or build tool (such as Make, Rake, or Grunt) to run that automatically on a whole list of files.
First we have to open our PDF with Inkscape, making sure the “Import text as text” option is selected. If we don’t select this, Inkscape will convert the text to vectors, which will make a simple task just a nightmare.
Once you import it, our PDF page will show as an Inkscape one, where each image will be embedded (if you select that option) and each text line will be an editable box. I haven’t search for editing options for files that have more than one page, however, if I have to, be sure I will do another article.
To edit this file, just double-click over the desired element and this will activate the edit mode. Once you have made the changes just save the file. I recommend to save it as a new file just in case you need it, so keep the original as a backup.
And that’s it, remember to save as PDF again, despite the good about Inkscape is that once your page is already imported, you can save it in any format that you consider useful.
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Current PDF support
PDF Import
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SVN version of Inkscape (to-be 0.46) uses poppler (0.5.4 and above) to import PDF files.
Implemented features: The new import extension can import paths, text, clippaths, masked or non-masked images, and softmasks. It supports pattern fills (XStep and YStep attributes are ignored) as well as linear and radial gradients (only those using sampled or exponential functions). Gradient meshes are imported, but they get converted to groups of small tiles (flat-colored paths) that approximate the mesh; the user can adjust the precision of this approximation.
Only one page can be imported. Users can preview pages and choose the one they need. This is because Inkscape doens't support multiple pages itself.
Use of Gnulibplot
A short way for converting files to import in Inkscape is to use gsview and the command 'edit/convert to vector format' to convert any pdf to svg. Easy and fast to use.Incidentally, gsview invokes a command similar to 'pstoedit -f plot-svg input-fileoutput-file' and, after downloading and installing pstoedit, this command can be run on the command line without opening gsview.
PDF Export
PDF export is now supported by main program, using cairo backend (choose Cairo PDF in the save as file requester).
Before there was the need from external program :pdf_output.inx exports PDF files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat PDFs, requiring ps2pdf (Installed separately, included in ghostscript)
Strengths: Depend of Cairo version.
Weaknesses: Depend of Cairo version.
Uncompressed PDF Output
At this time, it looks as if Inkscape only outputs uncompressed PDF output. Once you export a PDF, look at its file size. If it is too large for your application, then you have different options:
epstopdf
Export the exact same file to EPS (encapsulated postscript) and then use epstopdf to convert the file to PDF. This will make a compressed PDF.
Ghostscript
An other method utilizing Ghostscript[1] to compress pdfs.As an example see:
http://www.itechies.net/blog/archives/1764 (Ghostscript on Windows, English)
A little bit more extensive bash-scripts (therefore for Linux) also using ghostscript can be found herehttp://www.alfredklomp.com/programming/shrinkpdf/ (English)
http://blog.tenstral.net/2010/05/pdfs-verkleinern.html (German)
and here
https://dr-luthardt.de/linux.htm?tip=pdfshr (German)
Examples
As an illustration, my 72 page document went from 80 megabytes down to 3.1.
Current Postscript support
PS Import
ps_input.inx imports Postscript files by using two external conversion scripts:
Requirements:
pstoedit(Installed separately), this tool need a sharware plugin to support SVG.skconvert(Installed separately)
Strengths:
Weaknesses:
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PS Export
Inkscape has built-in support to write Postscript files.
Strengths:
- Outputs nice readable Postscript
Weaknesses:
- Doesn't support fill patterns and clipping, see bugs 1208874 and 1170322
- Postscript doesn't support transparency and Inkscape doesn't emulate this, so they are just ignored, that is you get the color you would get with opacity:1
Current Adobe Illustrator support
The files used by Adobe Illustrator were earlier postscript files but are now Pdf files.
AI Import
Pre 9.0 AI files
Requirements:
ill2svg.plrequires perl
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Strengths:
Weaknesses:
- Only works on the old Postscript-based Adobe format
- Code is sort of a hack
- No maintainer exists for this code
9.0 and above AI files
SVN version of Inkscape (to-be 0.46) supports AI files based on PDF (9.0 and above) using same code as for PDF import. All supported features are equivalent to those in the PDF.
AI Export
ai_output.inx exports Illustrator files by first saving them as Postscript and use an external converter to creat AIs (PostScript based).
Requirements:
ps2ai.ps(requires gs)
Strengths:
Weaknesses: