[sdiy] Original ARP Service Manuals

[Ullrich Peter]

Hallo Karl, hallo Rainer!

OK, this may be a solution but not that simple.
You can generate multipage PDFs even with windows freeware tools.
Print the graphics with Irfanview (scaling, fitting,... possible) into the ExpertPDF Editor 
standard freeware version. This adds printer task to the PDF manager.
Once you "printed" all the graphics just save the whole job and all printer tasks will be in one PDF.

You can also have a look at the PDF before saving and if something was wrong with one page 
you delete this page from the task list.

Work fine for me...

http://expert-pdf.softonic.de/   (I found the Freeware version only here, serial number is in the packet)
Maybe use Bablefish or Google to translate this page into English

http://www.irfanview.com/

Of course you can also do it with anAdobe Acrobat version... but this is not free...

Ciao
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Rainer Buchty
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:51 PM
To: Karl Ekdahl
Cc: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
Subject: Re: [sdiy] Original ARP Service Manuals

On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Karl Ekdahl wrote:

> Any good ideas on how to do this effectively? Just doing this 8-page 
> manual took me ~1-2 hours using Gimp for scanning/rotating/cropping 
> and then Open Office to make it into a multi-page PDF. I'm a windows 
> user :-(

Well... There you name it ;)

For a bigger scan job, I wrote a small script, which translates our 
institute's scanner output format (JBIG) into something more common -- 
with scaling, page rotation, margin cutting, and final conversion to PDF 
via JPG.

If you have Cygwin installed (plus pnmutils and ImageMagick, the jbigkit 
probably isn't required if your scanner does not also output this 
format), the following might also work for you:

#!/bin/bash
i=$1 ; 
while [ $i -le $2 ] ; 
	do echo $i ; 
	jbgtopbm $i.jbg | \
	pnmscale 0.25 | \
	pnmcut -left $3 -right $4 -top $5 -bottom $6 | \
	pnmscale 0.25 | \
	pnmflip -r90 | \
	pnmtojpeg --greyscale --smooth 10 | \ 
	convert - $i.pdf ; 
	let i=$i+1 ; 
done ;

Final assembly of individual PDF files into a single document can be 
easily done with pdftk.

HTH,
	Rainer


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