[PLUG] printing to scale part of a pdf document

Bill Barry bill at billbarry.org
Sat Apr 10 17:29:48 UTC 2021


On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 10:31 AM Denis Heidtmann <denis.heidtmann at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I have a 150 MB pdf file (66 pages) which has some scaled drawings
> (1/4"/ft).  I want to print a portion of a couple of these drawings. I
> think the portion of the drawings I want will fit on a 8 1/2 x 11 page.
> What programs might I use to do  this?  I have tried LibreOffice Draw.  It
> preserves the scale, but I cannot seem to move the printing "window" to
> the part of the drawing I want.  It seems that the document has some large
> page size, likely the size used for construction drawings.
>
> Running Ubuntu 20.04
>
> Thanks,
> -Denis
>

Gimp can import pages from a PDF file. Then you can scale it or select some
part of it to print.

Bill



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