If you want to insert an image (like your picture, signature etc.) to an existing pdf file and you don't have acrobat professional version (that allows you to edit a pdf file within the software). Then you may be able to use the following steps with combination of different tools that are available in linux:
- You have an image file (say, one lovely picture) and one pdf file (Orig.pdf) to which you want to insert your picture
- Use "gimp" to open them. For the pdf file, you have to select which page that you want to insert your picture to, and then open the page (NOTE: in order to have good quality and same size as the original page, you may have to set "resolution" as 320. I tried 300 and 400, and realized that 320 is the proper value)
- In "gimp", copy your picture on the pdf page. You can use the menu "Layer -> Scale Layer ..." to scale your picture to fit your requirement.
- Save your modified pdf page as one "eps" file.
- In terminal, convert the eps file to a pdf file by "epstopdf MyPage.eps" to get MyPage.pdf
- Then, still in your terminal, use the tool "pdftk" to merge the 2 pdf files (Orig.pdf and MyPage.pdf):
where we assume MyPage.pdf will be inserted as Page 5 while totoal pages in Orig.pdf are 11 pages.
Merge pdf files:
pdftk 1.pdf 2.pdf 3.pdf cat output 123.pdf
10 comments:
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It worked.
So thank you for taking the time to post this, It's the simplest way I have found to add graphics to a page of a PDF document.
Thanks! Worked like a charm.
Might I also suggest that you try Inkscape as well. I just used it and it worked smoothly. Open the two pages then do a copy and paste from one to the other. Again, it only works for one page so you might need to do the PDF merge if you want multiple pages.
I was even able to make the background of the signature file transparent so it blended smoothly with the original PDF.
I wanted to insert a signature to the existing pdf file but is not having the appropriate acrobat professional version that allows me to edit the PDF file. I will try these steps that you have mentioned to do this task. Thanks a lot for helping me out.
PDF signature
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I wanted to insert a signature to the existing pdf file but is not having the appropriate acrobat professional version that allows me to edit the PDF file. I will try these steps that you have mentioned to do this task. Thanks a lot for helping me out.
PDF signature
Thanks a lot for this. For people wanting to apply a signature to a pdf, the way that worked for me was to create a pdf file (with gimp) with the signature in the correct position, export as pdf, then:
pdftk orig.pdf stamp signature.pdf output orig_signed.pdf
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