Adding text to pictures

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Hello AW!

Okay so I have to explain something before the questions start rolling. My first picture book is coming out on ebook then print. Here's the problem: my publisher puts text on page 1, picture pg2, text pg 3, pic pg 4...and so the train rolls. This is totally fine for the print, but for anyone who had read a picture ebook like this, it is very jarring to read then see the pictures. It doesn't mesh well and kids hate it.

So I want to add the text myself to send to publisher. The PDF I have of all pictures is 6x9. Is there a way I can resize the PDF to open up room at the bottom of the picture to add text? Or is there another way I'm not seeing? The pictures do not have room to add the amount of text I need to.

Am willing to download trials of programs or whatever. Currently using Adobe Pro X
 

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you can do this using photoshop - expensive but excellent.
photoshop elements is the cheaper version - iv never used it but it should work
paintshop pro - cheaper than photoshop but also good
gimp - good and free

the problem with resizing is that you need to keep the same aspect ratio, so if you resize the height, the width will also resize- thereby creating a border around your images- would this be a problem?

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if they just want a pdf, you could even even use openoffice draw/write or scribus - both are free

will they take your pdf and configure it further, or do they expect the file to be formatted for print? the reason Im asking is that sometimes our printers expect us to submit the files configured in a certain way, and the software you use will depend on their requirements
 
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I second Scribus. It's free and relatively easy to use, as both layout programs and open source programs go.

I realize this means layouting a new book from scratch and selling two very different versions, which you or your publisher may be uncomfortable with. But if the ripped-from-print ebook doesn't work, that's the logical thing to do, isn't it?