pdf creation tool?

[R. G. Newbury]

> Bill Edwards wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com
>> <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     I would like to convert some old paper documentation to PDF in
>>     case I ever need it. I have the scan software, I can easily create
>>     an image of each page, or save the page in postscript or pdf. What
>>     I don't have is a simple tool which will easily allow me to put
>>     the pages into a single document, and possibly add an index so I
>>     can find things if needed.
>>
>>     Any suggestions? I can certainly live with what I have, I can get
>>     the information back for online reading or hard copy if needed,
>>     but it's ugly.
>>
>>     -- 
>>     Bill Davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com <mailto:davidsen at tmr.com>>
>>      "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
>>     the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot
>>       
>>
>>
>> I have the same problem, but I don't need any fancy indexes or stuff,
>> so I just save each page of the set as postscript, and then 
>> concatenate them all together with cat. then ps2pdf and you're done
>>
>> Bill Edwards
> xsane will save scanned pages as pdf, ps, whatever.  Don't know if it
> will scan multiple pages to save into one pdf but you can always do the
> cat | ps2pdf thing.
> 
> Kevin

Try gscan2pdf which is in the Everything repo for F10 (if not in prior 
versions).

Works like a charm, to take a number of tiff or jpg scans, and pack them 
into a pdf.
I use an HP 3055 All-in-One printer/scanner over the network, with 
scanimage to grab tiff's and gscan2pdf to pack them. QED.

Geoff





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