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[davids45]

G'day rcrsn51,

Thanks for the reply to my query.

I'll try a few recipe scans and see how the conversions look.

I expect, to hold good definition in case of the need to print-on-paper as well as for the pdf itself, the jpg should be of highish resolution.
Which is OK as I should treat the jpg as a temp file to be deleted once the pdf is as desired.

Will report any problems.

David S.

[rcrsn51]

Any updates?

[davids45]

G'day rcrsn51,

I've done one test which worked as you suggested (scanned as hi-res jpg, rotated, then pdf-ed to give landscape pdf in default pdf viewer).

I'm on cooking duty today so will try scanning some more recipes to better confirm the process, and will update, provided no one gets poisoned .

Thanks for your help.

David S.

Addendum 1:
Just scanned six recipe double-sided pages into pairs of jpg files, which I rotated with Peasy JPG resizer (scaled 100%, rotated + or - 90 degrees to get correct orientation) (examples as screenshots).
Then with PeasyPDFconverter converted each PEASYSCALE jpg to pdf and finally joined these pairs of pdfs into single pdfs (screenshot shows multiple windows open while doing the transformations which went very quickly).
Cannot post a finished pdf example as Forum won't accept pdf format - but all open in landscape in the default pdf viewer.

Addendum2: But I can post a screenshot (it's now the first screenshot) of the landscape-multipage recipe pdf in a Pup pdf viewer (example in BionicAlpha+6)

[Saladin]

PeasyPDF isn't working for me. When I try to extract PDFs into images, no images actually appear. When I try to extract into PDFs, the PDFs are just blank pages. What's causing this?

[rcrsn51]

Identify your Puppy version.

[Saladin]

Precise 5.7.1. I'm only having trouble with one PDF though. Other ones seem to work fine. Is there something that would cause it to not work with a certain file?

[rcrsn51]

This is probably a problem with the old version of Ghostscript in Precise. Try a newer Puppy.

[quantumbox]

This is my favorite tool for managing pdf on Linux, even when I move to Bionic dog, I still use this. I've just try install Debian noroot on my android tablet, I wonder if there is armhf architecture version for this.

[quantumbox]

[rcrsn51]

See the new hint in the Join section on Page 1.

With older Puppies, I found the pdfunite tool to be unreliable. But the newer versions may work OK and are faster than Ghostscript. YMMV.

[musher0]

Hello rcrsn51.

Thanks for your usefull pdf utility.

I was wondering however why we get the following slag when starting
peasypdf from console:

[rcrsn51]

The messages come from gtkdialog. To remove them, change the last line of the script to

[musher0]

Thanks, rcrsn51.

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I also get

[anewuser]

Hi.

This is a very nice tool. Quite important for me since I extract single pages out of entire books for my school kids when reading and printing.

I have a usuability request though.

After 10 pages the notification that a page was extracted steals the focus off the application that was being used along side peasypdf. This degrades performance overtime specially extracting entire books. I guess every bit of ram matters. Would it be too difficult to have this run in the command prompt (I come from a windows world, I guess the word is a shell) or even better have a gui option not to display notifications until after the entire process has finished? (I would rather prefer this)

Thank you. Very useful tool on my end and for my needs.

PD: I never tried djvu files, which I think don't work. Are djvu files supported (I believe they have tiff embedded images)