how to add pages from pdf and have them load into text frame

[vbwyrde]

My situation is that I have PDFs that I need to edit and then save as new PDFs.   So I open them with Affinity Publisher and when I do it opens them with the Text Frames there, but all of them are far too wide.  So far all I have been able to figure out is to go through every text frame on every page and widen it.  I'm wondering in this scenario how to handle that.  I was hoping Master Pages would provide an easy solution, but so far I haven't found a way to do this.  What I want is to open the PDF and have the text flow into text frames that are linked and properly attached to the text frames in the Master Page so that I can resize / modify them all at once.  How I might go about this?  Some of the PDFs have a LOT of pages (over 200) and so it makes having to go page by page to widen each text frame is really kind of a chore.  Any thoughts?  Thanks so much!   PS - Love Publisher!  Wonderful!  Thank you!

[stokerg]

Hi @vbwyrde and Welcome to the Forums,

On 5/6/2021 at 1:32 AM, vbwyrde said:

What I want is to open the PDF and have the text flow into text frames that are linked and properly attached to the text frames in the Master Page so that I can resize / modify them all at once.  How I might go about this?

Sorry to say, you can't.  When you open the PDF the text boxes will be unlinked, so you'd have to manually set the links  As well setup any Master Pages.  This would all have to be done manually, unless another user is aware of a method i'm not and i'm sure they will post once they see this.

[vbwyrde]

Thank you stokerg for confirming my experience thus far.  There is one option that I found that works partially well.  If you go to Open File > and point to the PDF, on import it offers you some options which don't appear in the "Add Pages from File"  Among those alternate options is one that allows you to flow the text.  That helps.  It's not perfect, as there's still a lot of manual adjusting that needs to be done, but it does help.