Episode 146: Ripping Apart a PDF

“This week I rip apart a PDF based photography magazine using
GIMP. GIMP can load a PDF and use the pages as layers or single
images. You can then “steal” the content or modify it. I took Paul
Wellner Bou’s new magazine “Lighted Moments” and extracted a series
of images from it. I want to use these images in a promo video for
the magazine – where I plan to submit some pictures.

“For using portrait oriented images in a landscape format video
I had to get the aspect ratio right, so I had to change the canvas
size and add new background. One image needed to be combined out of
two pages. Due to an error by me I also had to explain the
difference between changing the canvas size and scaling the image
content.”

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