I'd like to extract some pdf images from a paper for presentation purposes. In windows, Adobe Illustrator works just fine, but I now have to perform this task in a Debian box.Two popular solutions I found online are using.The pdfimage does not meet my needs since I want vector graphics (pdf) rather than jpgs so I prefer to use Inkscape, but it does not work as expected.
I hope I could use some selector tool to drag a box and select everything inside as I normally did with Illustrator, but none of the tools in Inkscape works.If I use the 'select and transform objects' tool (the black arrow), the whole pdf page is selected while I only want a small portion; if I use the 'edit path by nodes' tool (the black triangle arrow with some nodes) I can only select a single object at a time. Drag and drop (even with the shift key pressed) does not work.I'm wondering if there's a way to get around this, or is there a better tool in Debian to achieve the same?
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I can see how to import the desired into GIMP as layers or as images, but I can't figure out how to get it to export it back as a multipage PDF. When I try to export, it seems to export only the top layer. Any help would be appreciatededit: updateThanks for all the tips. I ended up first trying to use the export layers to pdf plugin, which gave a strange error trying to write to the tmp folder.
Then I exported the layers as an.mng and converted using graphicsmagick, which worked except for not being able to comment in the pdf file. I ended up having to use Acrobat on a school computer later. Using GIMP for PDF editing is a terrible, terrible idea. GIMP is a raster only program, meaning that every file imported into it must be a grid of pixels with a fixed resolution. The advantage of PDF files is that they are vector and thus easy to print.If you are on a Mac, use Preview, it is very easy and 10x better than GIMP.If you are on Windows, there are a ton of programs that can open and open PDFs without losing quality like GIMP will.If you are on Linux, there are at least a dozen apps that could all do this.
Okular, PDFedit, OoO/Libreoffice, or even Inkscape will all do the trick.TL;DR: GIMP is not the tool for this job, but there are a lot of great, free alternatives available that do what you want. You haven't?GIMP is 100% raster. With the exception of the Text Tool, every effect and tool applied to the canvas is mixing pixels, not changing vectors.
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Every format that GIMP exports in is some sort of bitmap. Although it has a semi-functional paths tool, the only way to use the paths you draw is to convert them to a selection, making them raster!Hopefully this changes at some point; non-destructive editing and better path tools will make a lot of art much, much easier.Until then, Inkscape is completely vector-based. If you're looking for a free vector program, I'd use this instead. Hope that explains things.