Hello List,
Anyone out there creating PDF files with Linux? If so, with what software?
Basically I have a bunch of stuff to scan and convert into PDF and jpg files. Jpg is easy but I'm not so sure about PDF....
Thanks, Jo
jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hello List,
Anyone out there creating PDF files with Linux? If so, with what software?
Basically I have a bunch of stuff to scan and convert into PDF and jpg files. Jpg is easy but I'm not so sure about PDF....
Quick and dirty way - save them to .ps (postscript) files and then use ps2pdf, unfortunately, any text won't then be text in the pdf.
Longer and more involved way: use something like latex to relayout the document then use pdflatex to create the pdf files.
Thanks,
Brett
Brett Parker wrote:
Quick and dirty way - save them to .ps (postscript) files and then use ps2pdf, unfortunately, any text won't then be text in the pdf.
Longer and more involved way: use something like latex to relayout the document then use pdflatex to create the pdf files.
Thanks for that, Brett. ps2pdf works a treat :)
Is there any way to specify file size/page size etc? I don't see anything in the documentation so I suspect there isn't...
Jo
jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
Quick and dirty way - save them to .ps (postscript) files and then use ps2pdf, unfortunately, any text won't then be text in the pdf.
Longer and more involved way: use something like latex to relayout the document then use pdflatex to create the pdf files.
Thanks for that, Brett. ps2pdf works a treat :)
Is there any way to specify file size/page size etc? I don't see anything in the documentation so I suspect there isn't...
Hrm, only thing I can think of is trying pstops on the postscript files first, then running ps2pdf over the results. Its been a while since I last needed to create any so I'm a little out of touch!
Thanks,
Brett
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 20:02:07 jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
Is there any way to specify file size/page size etc? I don't see anything in the documentation so I suspect there isn't...
Normally for postscript and specification of page size is done with the appropriate words of the postscript language, so the page size of a document is set by the application which creates the postscript.
When converting to PDF, hopefully ps2pdf will honour that page size.
if you can't control the application that generates the postscript you can probably fix it by hand or by script failrly easily.
Steve.
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 19:12:29 jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hello List,
Anyone out there creating PDF files with Linux? If so, with what software?
Basically I have a bunch of stuff to scan and convert into PDF and jpg files. Jpg is easy but I'm not so sure about PDF....
If you are starting with a scanned image I don't understand why you would want to convert to PDF which is a full blown page description language rather than an image format like JPEG.
I am creating PDF files, but from an XML source and an XSL stylesheet. The software to do this is called FOP and it can generate PDF and PostScript as output.
Steve.
On 16-Apr-02 jo@yee-ha.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hello List,
Anyone out there creating PDF files with Linux? If so, with what software?
Basically I have a bunch of stuff to scan and convert into PDF and jpg files. Jpg is easy but I'm not so sure about PDF....
Thanks, Jo
Hi Jo, Convert your original image format into PostScript, (*.ps) (the 'convert' program from ImageMagick will probably be good for this) then use 'ps2pdf' (part os 'ghostscript') to convert that to PDF:
ps2pdf file.ps
leading to a file 'file.pdf'.
If these are scanned images, then the PS files are likely to be huge. The PDF files, being compressed, will be smaller but still large. Good luck.
Ted.
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