Importing MultiPage PDF into pages

Frank,

What are you doing with the book in Pages that you couldn't do in Preview, I wonder? Since Pages isn't designed to Open a PDF file, it's not unreasonable for it to only be able to take in one image at a time, I think.

Update: I just came across this in another thread - an app for conversion from PDF to Word, which then could be opened by Pages. See: http://www.pdftoword.com/

I have no experience with it. There is a free trial.

Jerry

cfrankwolfe wrote:

Absolutly worked perfectly. Saved me soooo much time.

Thank you!

Frank

Frank,

What worked for you? Please reply to someone other than yourself so we know whose post you are talking about.

Jerry

cfrankwolfe wrote:

import multime JPG in Pages

Try this:

+Set TextEdit to Rich Text

+Drop a group of photos into a blank doc

+Do Select All and Copy

+Paste into a blank Pages doc

You might be able to import the Pages doc into iB Author...

Neither Pages nor iBooks Author were designed to open PDFs.

Each tool has its own range of features.

When I want to rebuild an editable document from a PDF, I use the Select All then Copy tools to extract the text component which I paste in Pages.

Then I copy the pictures one by one and paste them at the wanted location in Pages.

I wish to add that the app pointed by Jerrold is dedicated to Windows 😟

When I saw the Jerrold message, I uploaded a sample file to test their online service but I'm always waiting for a result.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mercredi 1 février 2012

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PDF is page-independent, so pages may be manipulated singly (not possible in PostScript). But that is the one and only capability that comes automatically, that is, structure in the sense of page bounding.

Anything above the basics of a customisable graphic co-ordinate geometry (a 'page') and the identifiers for the graphic objects imported into the geometry has to be added by the user who tags / marks up the geometry information with ICC colourimetry information and, for the purpose of the present problem, with UCS/Unicode character information and content information on the mapping of the layout rendering order to the logical reading order. If the spatial information at the Page Description Language (PDL) level is mapped to semantic information at the Standard Generalised Markup Language (SGML) level then the PDL is accessible, and reflowable. Otherwise, it is simply printable. What some application software does is assume semantic information from spatial information, as in OS X 10.6 that introduced the assumption that a certain amount of spatial distance is probably a column difference.

/hh

cfrankwolfe wrote:

I figured I would be able to import multime JPG in Pages or iBookAuthor.

Is there some other word processor app where you have been able to do this?

I think you can dump photos into keynote and get it to produce one slide for each one, but that probably doesn't help much, even with the keynote widget in iB Author.

PS I also have some multipage pdf's where I was able to do select all from preview (set to text) and contrary to my expectation copy/paste into Pages to create a multipage doc. Various stuff lost and misformatted however.

> PS I also have some multipage pdf's where I was able to do select all from preview (set to text) and contrary to my expectation copy/paste into Pages to create a multipage doc. Various stuff lost and misformatted however.

Inference from glyph identifiers for UCS/Unicode and from spatial information for logical order works best if the script is simple and the layout is single column. Still, at the lowest level of logical order, the semantics of white space is not stored for the difference between space, tab, kern and the difference between soft hyphen and hard hyphen, even for English. While ISOI-IEC 15445 HTML (XML, ePub and so forth) allows the paragraph to be the access point, in PDF the paragraph is not the access point as the typographic rendering is cannot be factored out when setting up a search string, copying, and more. For instance, words that are hyphenated are not searchable unless there is structure information that specifies the level of the paragraph.

It's possible to drag-select in Preview, copy-paste into TextEdit for manual clean-up, and copy-paste into Pages for manual re-composition, and its also possible to use the application intelligence in Acrobat to do the same, but this does not necessarily produce the same result since the actual information is not embedded, it is inferred. Below a reference on support for logical structure written by the lead engineer on Adobe XML (Mars).

/hh

Reference:

http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~dfb/Publications/Download/2004/structure04.pdf

Are you after the text or the images?

Preview and Adobe Acrobat Pro can extract text. Acrobat Pro can extract the images as well.

Peter

I open the PDF in Preview, then copy and paste into Pages...clean up formatting as required.

Pages will output and get you into the store via epub if needed.

Is this book your copyright?

If so how was it created and turned into pdf?

Go back to the original source with its images and text.

Peter

It is confusing, but he also marked my suggestion to add photos via TextEdit as the answer.

Thanks Tom, I don't know why I didn't see that.

Jerry