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Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?

From Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document?
Date 2022-01-13 20:40 +0100
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On Thu, 13 Jan 2022 19:44:23 +0100
Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> wrote:

> The GUI is not the problem here. But GIMP works with raster images, so
> everything that is vectorized, including text, is transformed to a
> rasterized image, causing loss of sharpness and a drastic increase in
> file size. So GIMP is just not suitable for this purpose.

Also, it is possible to extract the text from a PDF (pdftk does this
very well), but once it is rasterized, that capability is lost.

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How to rotate then save a PDF document? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-01-11 15:40 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2022-01-11 16:30 +0100
    Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2022-01-11 17:10 +0100
      Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Siard <shiems@mailbox.org> - 2022-01-13 20:10 +0100
        Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2022-01-13 20:40 +0100
        Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-13 21:10 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Georgi Naplatanov <gosho@oles.biz> - 2022-01-11 16:40 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Jim Popovitch <jim@k4vqc.com> - 2022-01-11 16:40 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2022-01-11 16:50 +0100
  Re: How to rotate then save a PDF document? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2022-01-11 17:20 +0100

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