PDF documents <OT>

[Mike Reinehr]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 14:51, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> 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.

One more suggestion. You could use pdfimages to extract the image files from 
your pdf files and then use OO.org as I originally described.

cmr
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