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[rcrsn51]

Excellent. It looks like I gettexted everything.

[charlie6]

Hi rcrsn51,

[charlie6]

Hi,
french locale: on page 2 this thread, please find new update (some left typos fixed)
Charlie

[charlie6]

Hi,

Peasypdf-2.8 reports error ("non valid file, blanks present ...") if converting files stored on an USB stick or whatever /mnt/folder.

Was working OK on version 2.4.

HTH, Charlie

[rcrsn51]

[charlie6]

Hi rcrsn51,

[rcrsn51]

Starting at Line 46

[charlie6]

Hi again rcrsn51,

[rcrsn51]

Excellent. Lines 38 and 90 call the "file" command. It reports a BMP file as "PC bitmap", so PeasyPDF identifies it as "PC".

Here is a tip: If you have a bunch of BMP fax files and want to convert them into one PDF, you should probably select "Ignore" instead of "Portrait" from the drop-down list. This will get you a PDF document with letter-sized pages.

Otherwise, PeasyPDF assumes that these are small graphics images like photos and packages them in a smaller 5x7 format.

Maybe instead of "Ignore", some better choices would be "Letter" and "A4"?

[rcrsn51]

@Charlie:

I have posted v2.9. This version gives you more choices when you convert a set of graphics to PDF and combine them into one document.

[charlie6]

Hi rcrsn51,
Many thanks for this v-2.9 !
Looks like a bit from v-2.4 ...isn't ? i appreciate much !
Now downloaded and installed; i'll report conclusions in a while;
The «wise» user «who-is-knowing-what-he-does » would be supposed to add the specific above-already-posted codes for PC) (=.bmp) and GIF) (= .gif) graphic formats inside /usr/sbin/peasypdf script + have previously installed bmptopnm + giftopnm binaries (for dpup-wheezy users and maybe others, get them from:
http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/n/netpbm-free/netpbm_10.0-15+b1_i386.deb ... or from your favorite repo)..

Attached is v2.9 french locale update with its PeasyPDF.desktop file in it.

Cheers,Charlie
ps: my trunk runs with fr_BE locale setting ... this is of course valid for fr locale ..

[charlie6]

Hi rcrsn51,
For fax sending, it is sometime needed to convert pdf files to ps (postscript files).
The use of efax-gtk indeed returns an error message when trying to fax pdf files, as efax requires postscript files as input.
I use to use sam2p, another command line file converter, to achieve that conversion step.
As pdftops is default present in dpup-wheezy, and digging a bit in peasypdfs script, i got a try adding:
- the following code at line265:

[rcrsn51]

Nice work! Postscript used to be more important because an application like your word processor would send a print job to CUPS formatted as PS.

But that changed recently so the application now sends the print job as a PDF.

However, the PeasyPDF Print tool should still accept a PS file. I tried this myself by running Abiword, creating a document and using Print > Print to File > Postscript. I then printed that PS document to my laser printer using PeasyPDF.

Have you already tried this with your fax? I think that you have, but I wasn't completely sure.

Or are you just looking to simplify things by converting a PDF to PS and then printing it, all in one step? This may be possible.

If you look in the PeasyPDF CONVERT section, it can actually convert a Poscript file to a PDF. But I forgot to add it to CONVERTALL!

[charlie6]

Hi rcrrsn51,
about efax-gtk sending pdf files ...
I was looking doing it in one step.

[rcrsn51]

Just be be 100% clear:

If you convert a PDF file to PS through pdftops, then send the PS file though PeasyPDF's Print function, it works with your fax machine?

I'm confused, because your example above appears to be sending the fax as a PDF without converting to PS.