PDF documents <OT>

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:11, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> On Thursday 14 September 2006 10:26, Ric Moore wrote:
> > I've finally managed to scan a series of documents, so I have 9 scanned
> > images saved as PDF documents. How would I go about making one PDF
> > document that contains each of them saved as one page each? I'm trying
> > OpenOffice but I cannot find the command to insert a new page to copy
> > the image to. I RTFM but cannot find it. I know this is slightly
> > off-topic, but I could sure use some help. Any other method would be
> > welcome as well. Ric
>
> Ric,
>
> If I understand your question, you can use the key combinatin <Ctrl><Shift>
> to insert a hard page break to start a new page.
>
> I do this sort of thing all the time. Open a new text document. Set your
> margins if necessary. Insert picture from file. Right-click & select format
> picture if necessary. With your cursor positioned after the picture, enter
> a hard page break. Repeat as necessary.
>
> There also is a program 'tiff2pdf' that you could use to do this from the
> command line, but I've never taken the time to figure out all the options.
>
> HTH
>
> cmr

Ric,

Sorry, but my brain must have stopped right after reading 'scanned images' but 
after reading Lonnie's reply I realized that you were working with PDF files 
and not image files. In this case, this approach might work.

There is another program called psmerge which will take multiple ps files and 
combine them into one. So, you could do this in a three-step process. First, 
use a pdf reader to open/view the individual pdf files and then print each of 
them to a PS file. (Or, you could also use pdf2ps.) Then use psmerge to 
gather them all up into one ps file. Finally, use ps2pdf to convert that file 
back into a pdf file.

HTH

cmr

PS	I don't believe that OO.org can open either a PS or PDF file, but GIMP 
will.
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