14 Jan
2003
14 Jan
'03
10:51 p.m.
I have a bunch of documentation for my VAX 11/750 and peripherals that I
would like to scan in and make available. What technique should I use?
I can scan individual pages, but how do I stitch them together to make
one big PDF file?
alan
14 Jan
14 Jan
11:30 p.m.
Alan wrote:
I have a bunch of documentation for my VAX 11/750 and
peripherals that I
would like to scan in and make available. What technique should I use?
I can scan individual pages, but how do I stitch them together to make
one big PDF file?
Some scanner software can output PDF directly. That's probably the
easiest approach.
If you have the full Acrobat package (not just the free Acrobat Reader),
it can import common image formats such as TIFF and JPEG, but you have
to do it one at a time. There are other programs out there that can
do this a bit more easily. I use my own program under Linux, which I
hope to find the time to clean up and release sometime.
15 Jan
15 Jan
5:37 a.m.
Some scanner software can output PDF directly.
That's
probably the easiest approach.
The Lexmark W810 and C710 I used to use did that, but it
was not G4 compressed (not a big deal, but something to
be aware of).
If you have the full Acrobat package (not just the free
Acrobat Reader), it can import common image formats such as
TIFF and JPEG, but you have to do it one at a time. There
Acrobat 4 can import up to 50 files at once. So if you have
scanned to 50 individual TIFFs you can import them all in
one go (it's not that speedy though!). I expect that
Acrobat 5 can also import, but I could never find the
right menu ! What it can do (which 4 and earlier could not)
is spit out a PDF file as individual G4 compressed TIFFs.
Antonio
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Antonio Carlini arcarlini(a)iee.org
9:53 a.m.
Antonio Carlini wrote:
If you don't have acrobat, but have a current RedHat Linux setup:
If you start out with tiff images, you can use the following sequence
to end up with a pdf (as long as you don't get any fatal errors), assuming
that the original tiff files are named something like 't1-001.tif' ...
't1-999.tif'
and the final file will be named 't1.pdf'
tiffcp t1-*.tif t1.tif
tiff2ps -a t1.tif > t1.ps
ps2pdf t1.ps t1.pdf
rm t1.tif
rm t1.ps
tiffcp is used to merge all the tif files into a single tif file.
tiff2ps converts the tif file into a postscript one (very big file)
ps2pdf converts the postscript file into a pdf one (smaller than
the postscript)
and rm killes the intermediate files.
There are some 'tif' formats that the programs will not handle,
but it will give you a nasty error message if you try one of those.
Some scanner
software can output PDF directly. That's
probably the easiest approach.
The Lexmark W810 and C710 I used to use did that, but it
was not G4 compressed (not a big deal, but something to
be aware of).
If you have the full Acrobat package (not just the
free
Acrobat Reader), it can import common image formats such as
TIFF and JPEG, but you have to do it one at a time. There
Acrobat 4 can import up to 50 files at once. So if you have
scanned to 50 individual TIFFs you can import them all in
one go (it's not that speedy though!). I expect that
Acrobat 5 can also import, but I could never find the
right menu ! What it can do (which 4 and earlier could not)
is spit out a PDF file as individual G4 compressed TIFFs.
Antonio
7:38 p.m.
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, Antonio Carlini wrote:
Acrobat 4 can import up to 50 files at once. So if you
have scanned to 50
individual TIFFs you can import them all in one go (it's not that speedy
though!).
When converting from multi-page TIFF to PDF, I typically use IrfanView, a
free and good Windows image viewer, and I print to the Acrobat 5 Distiller
printer. The Acrobat import feature is convenient, but I can't find any
definite way to view (or configure) the parameters it uses when processing
images. What DPI does it use for such-and-such class of images? What kinds
of compression does it use? I feel much more comfortable with Distiller and
its configurability -- I know what is going into my PDFs.
IrfanView is also neat because of its very fast rendering and printing the
TIFFs.
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Jeffrey Sharp
5:19 a.m.
I have a bunch of documentation for my VAX 11/750 and
peripherals that I would like to scan in and make available.
What technique should I use?
Start by looking at http://208.190.133.201/decimages/moremanuals.htm
to see if they've already been done. I scanned the 750
prints that I had and those of various boards that were
included (DMF32, a few PSUs etc.). It's short on 750
technical docs though.
I can scan individual pages, but how do I stitch them
together to make one big PDF file?
Use a bigger scanner :-) Seriously an A3 or 11x17
scanner is the best option. Otherwise you need to
use an image editing program to put it
all together.
Antonio
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