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Man you are fast! I'll test ASAP.

Thanks a million.

Used EasyPDF a few minutes ago, in Precise 5.5, to extract a couple pages out of a 6-page music score. It's a marvel!

Many thanks and kudos from me too - it's going to be used regularly.

This has been a life saver today, for an assignment I had.

Thanks rcrsn51!

Wiki page-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PeasyPDF

Hi rscrn51,
thanks again for PeasyPdf ...
I would report about sharpness of images converted to pdf.
Hereunder are 2 shots of an image (2.2MB .bmp image1280x1782 pixels) converted to pdf:
- one from using Peasy_Pdf which is 20K sized (using "fill the whole page option");
- the other from using sam2p command line converter, which is 15K size and looks having a far better sharpness.

Any idea to improve the sharpness of converted files using Peasy_Pdf?

Thanks for any answer.
Charlie

Hi,
the above post was relative to the conversion from a .BMP file to a .PDF file, using the Quick option
Further to that previous post, i've tried to manually perform the commands used in /usr/sbin/peasypdf:

#bmptopnm myfileORIG.BMP > myfileORIG.pnm
# pnmtops myfileORIG.pnm > myfileORIG.ps
# ps2pdf myfileORIG.ps

and got a better result than the one using peasypdf using the «fill the page» option (i.e. imho using the pnmtops -noturn -center -equalpixels command) or leaving empty those option boxes.

i also edited /usr/sbin/peasypdf script and added those lines at line 51 through 55: which does not use the $OPTION variable ... also without getting better results.

Peasypdf keeps producing the same result ... so i wonder how to do.
Thanks for any answer
Charlie

What Puppy are you using?

When PeasyPDF receives a non-linux file type like BMP, it sends it to Abiword for conversion to PDF. So you don't get very good quality.

The notes recommend that you use mtpaint to convert the BMP to PNG, then load it in PeasyPDF.

In any case, the BMP) line in your script should be PC).

Where did you get the bmptopnm command? I don't see it in any standard Puppies. Or did it come with samp?

Hi rcrsn51,
Thanks for replying !
Here i'm running wheezy-3.5.2.5 (rather outdated ...is'nt...? ).
Ooops...i did'nt read the notes ...sorry.

Why BMP ...? because i have a memory fax modem that receives faxes with PC off power - managing soft runs under wine - faxes to be archived can be exported under BMP format only. .

Having a conversion tool with minimal readability losses is important as faxed documents quality is sometimes weak.

I found the package netpbm which has a lot of graphic conversion tools, with bmptopnm among others;
for wheezy, download here:
https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/netpbm
it needs also libnetpbm extra dep, link given on the same page.

Thanks for your tip ! This works here: adding at line 50 of /usr/sbin/peasypdf script and its working
(i have checked that having commented out the script lines calling abiword (from *) and following).

Sam2p comes with only a binary file that has all conversion tools in it; it does not need extra deps.

Hope this help
Charlie

Excellent. The latest version of PeasyPDF (posted on page 1) removes the reliance on Abiword.

PeasyPDF v2.6 is posted on the first page.

Thanks to FeodorF for testing.

Hi rcrsn51,
many thaks for this awesome update !
here is a peasypdf-2.8 french translation
enjoy !
Charlie

220514 edited:
pet re-uploaded: modified tanslation in "Convert" thumbnail.
140514 edited:
pet re-uploaded with some left typos fixed + fine tuned
290414 edited:
pet re-uploaded with some left typos fixed + fine tuned

Excellent. It looks like I gettexted everything.

Hi rcrsn51,

rcrsn51 wrote:Excellent. It looks like I gettexted everything.

...ooops quite everything...?
please see re-uploaded french locales pet on previous page.
sorry,
Charlie

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

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

charlie6 wrote:Peasypdf-2.8 reports error ("non valid file, blanks present ...") if converting files stored on an USB stick or whatever /mnt/folder

Please state what conversion procedure and what kind of file you are converting.

What Puppy version are you using?

I have done a bunch of tests and cannot find a problem. Please describe exactly step-by-step what you are doing.

Hi rcrsn51,

Please state what conversion procedure and what kind of file you are converting.

thanks for replying ...
Ooops .. ! i found i was trying to convert to pdf a bitmap graphic image that version 2.8 cannot do.
I got a succesfull try with a "normal" png image stored on an USB stick.
... so i was doing as with the version 2.4 in which i added the bmp option (see http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 0&start=24.

No hope: adding those bmp conversion codes do not work in version 2.8..
Any idea to get bmp conversion working with 2.8 ?

Thanks in advance
Charlie

ps:
1. i have uploaded a new french locale pet »»»-------> see page 2
2. here using dpup-wheezy3.5.2.5 and 3.5.2.11

Starting at Line 46 So you should be able to add Don't forget to also install bmptopnm.

[Edit] I tried this myself in Slacko 56 and it worked fine. I had to get bmptopnm from Slackware - the Debian version didn't work.

Hi again rcrsn51,

rcrsn51 wrote:Starting at Line 46

Code: Select all

    TIFF)
      tifftopnm "$CONVERTNAME" | pnmtops $OPTIONS > /tmp/pptemp.ps
      ;;

So you should be able to add

Code: Select all

PC)                                                                  
      bmptopnm "$CONVERTNAME" | pnmtops $OPTIONS > /tmp/pptemp.ps
     ;; 

Don't forget to also install bmptopnm.

[Edit] I tried this myself in Slacko 56 and it worked fine. I had to get bmptopnm from Slackware - the Debian version didn't work.

OK! added; and works fine ! bmptopnm was already installed (it is included in netpbm).

i also noticed another options for graphic formats for folder conversion from line 94 in the original version 2.8;
so i got a try adding there: and it worked fine on a folder having several file formats in it: jpeg , png, gif and bmp. The "assemble in one pdf" box was checked, and it resulted one pdf file with as many pages as the number of files in the folder. Except the gif file which has been ignored.

Just one thing: what is "PC)" standing for? In a previous post, you suggested to replace BMP) by PC), did'nt you?

Now, i 've added one GIF options around line 46:
assuming /usr/bin/giftopnm is present (also comes with netpbm) and around line 94: and it works also for a single file as also for a folder.

Thanks a lot
Charlie

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"?

@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.