I've just been using a simple python script which feeds each pnm file to pnmtops and concat's the output into a huge array which is then feeds to ps2pdf. Works pretty well and really simple. <br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 10/19/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Kristian Fiskerstrand</b> <<a href="mailto:news@kfwebs.net">news@kfwebs.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA256<br><br>Greetings list,<br><br>I recently purchased an Epson Perfection 4490 Office W/Document Feeder<br>(ADF) and it is working very nicely using iscan (<br><a href="http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html">
http://www.avasys.jp/english/linux_e/dl_scan.html</a> ) .<br><br>The reason for getting this scanner in the first place was a discussion<br>on this list where it was recommended, so thank you.<br><br>Now, I only have one question with regards to it, and that is merging
<br>multiple images into a single PDF file. When scanning I get files in the<br>format somename-####.jpg , .pnm or .png depending on the format I<br>specify. and I would very much like to merge them into a single file to<br>
send out.<br><br>I've tried to get this to work using a couple of different approaches.<br>Using ImageMagick's convert was one of them, both into PDF directly and<br>into PostScript and convert it to PDF using ps2pdf afterwards, but both
<br>of these approaches were un-successful in the terms of acceptable<br>output. I tried adjusting -density and -page but I still don't get<br>acceptable output from my 300dpi scans.<br><br>In addition I tried a perl script called jpg2pdf, which is supposed to
<br>generate "albums" from multiple images, but that as well was unsuccessful.<br><br>After that I considered creating my own online PDF-service using FPDF (<br><a href="http://www.fpdf.org/">http://www.fpdf.org/
</a> ), but the initial testing shows that the cropping<br>gets all wrong. That said this is the approach that has gotten me the<br>furthest as of yet and that I'm most likely to persue unless someone has<br>a good suggestion for me. The downside is of course the transfer of >
<br>1MB image files and downloading the resulting PDF file again.<br><br>Yours sincerely,<br><br>- --<br>- ----------------------------<br>Kristian Fiskerstrand<br><a href="http://www.kfwebs.net">http://www.kfwebs.net</a>
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