13 Jul
2003
13 Jul
'03
4:16 p.m.
Robert Krten wrote:
I have the chance to pay some money and get my
17x22" PDP-8/I schematics
scanned, but they only offer TIFF output. These will be scanned in 400 DPI
mode and put on the web. These are a newer revision than the ones posted
on the web.
What I'd *really* like to do is convert them from TIFF to PDF and bind them
into multi-page PDFs instead of the one-per-page TIFF files that I'll get
from the scanning house.
Any volunteers? Suggestions for *free* software than runs on FreeBSD or, worst
case, Windoze?
I use c42pdf on a PC. It is free. It is fast. It doesn't actually
touch the image -- it just puts a PDF wrapper around it. However, it
only works for bitonal images (1bpp).
Do a google search on "c42pdf" and you'll find a number of hits.
Go here to get binaries for a number of architectures:
http://c42pdf.ffii.org/
I also know that some months back Eric Smith of this list was working on
something much more flexible than c42pdf, but I don't know where it
stands. You can check for yourself:
http://tumble.brouhaha.com/