Inkscape

Opening files

Asked by Ryne Davis

I need a program to do my school assignments in. This program was recommended as a good pdf program, as all my assignments download as a pdf. My problem when i tried to open my assignment is it will only allow me to load in the first of 5 pages. How can i load in all pages without having to have multiple documents. The submissions are not allowed in multiple submissions so i need it all to be on a single page. Thanks

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Hachmann (marenhachmann) said : 		#1

Hi Ryne,

Inkscape does not have multi page support, at the moment.

You can import one page at a time, and you can only save one page at a time (okay, there is an extension that saves multiple png pictures in one go...).

You can import multiple pages into one document, though, using the import functionality repeatedly. (File -> Import -> select your pdf, select the next page). Then you have them side by side on your Inkscape canvas.

And you can export different parts of the document, each to a one-page pdf, and later connect those with another program (for example pdfsam) into one single pdf.

Or you can save all imported page-objects at once into one large pdf file with one large page (after aligning them to a grid, probably).

If you do not plan to send your assignments to a printer, this is a viable option for some use cases, but it's far from ideal.

Do you really need to edit the assignment pdfs? If you only need to scribble on them, there are many pdf readers which allow for that already. LibreOffice allows opening of multi-page pdf files, too. So if you don't need to draw sophisticated pictures, you can also use that, and change the text in the pdf.

Be aware that the saved pdf (page) might not look the same / have the same properties as before if you im- and export it again into any of the programs. Especially blur and gradients are known to look different in some cases. Never overwrite the original pdf file, but use a different name for your new file.

Regards,
 Maren

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