Re: [pdfmod] use case / page numbers

[Gabriel Burt <gabriel burt gmail com>]

That sounds like a great feature request.  Can you file a
bug/feature-request on bugzilla for it?  Thanks for the great writeup!

Gabriel

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 12:42 PM, snow guy <snowguy10 mail com> wrote:
> Hi All, I am a new user of pdfmod. I've been using it for the last 3 months.
> I like it.
>
> I notice the use case for what I use it for though is different from those
> found at: https://live.gnome.org/PdfMod/UseCases
>
> Here is my use case:
> Sara is compiling a package of documents for some business partners. The
> package includes some introductory slides (presentation style) from Impress,
> and some addendum information from Writer and Calc. She wants all of the
> documents in a single file to send out. She has tried to use both Writer and
> Impress as containers but struggles to get each page looking its best using
> that approach. Instead, she outputs the pdf to send from whatever program
> she made the document. She then uses PDF Mod to combine them into a single
> PDF to send out.
>
> Is this a use case PDF Mod is interested in supporting? If so, is there
> interest in adding the following feature?
> Allow the user to add page numbers to each page when saving. The user should
> be able to choose a font and size, a position (Top Right, Top Center, Top
> Left, Bottom Right, Bottom Center, Bottom Left) and a format (e.g. "Page #"
> where everything but the # is printed as plain text and the # is replaced
> with the corresponding page number for each page.) The page position should
> work correctly even when different pages are in different orientations (e.g.
> some in landscape some in portrait).
>
> Right now I have a VM that runs XP in it just so that I can run a freebe
> windows program to add page numbers to PDFs. If you like the idea of adding
> this as a feature, I am happy to add it to the bugs list or a separate
> features list if there is one. Let me know, thanks.
>
> Snowguy
>
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