[Cialug] insert image into a pdf

Dave Hala dave at 58ghz.net
Mon Dec 9 16:05:10 UTC 2019


It looks like this might be a potential solution.

On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 6:10 PM Hakan E. Duran <ehakanduran at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
>
> On 19/12/07 10:17, Dave Hala wrote:
> > ...
> > Still not optimal, but a workable solution nonetheless.
> >
> I was just going to suggest pdfjam, which comes with the texlive-core
> package in Arch linux, and is a command line tool to add/extract pages
> to and from pdf files just like pdftk. By default, jpg and png files are
> treated as pdf pages when you want to insert them to an existing file as
> per the documentation. I never tried it myself, but I use it regularly
> to make a single pdf file from several scanned pages as separate pdf
> files.
>
> HTH,
>
> Hakan
>
>
> > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019 at 8:41 AM jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > maybe ignore that last attempt at an answer
> > >
> > > On Sat, Dec 7, 2019, 07:53 jim kraai <jimgkraai at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > imagemagick?
> > > >
> > > > two ways, depending on IM version
> > > > http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=31527
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2019, 14:29 Dave Hala <dave at 58ghz.net> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> I'm looking for a command line tool that will allow me to insert a
> .png
> > > >> image into an existing pdf file at a specific location in the pdf.
> I
> > > >> tried
> > > >> using ghostscript, but its throwing all kinds of errors all over the
> > > >> place.
> > > >>
> > > >> Anyone got any suggestions?
> > > >>
> > > >>
> > > >> :) Dave
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