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davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Chatswood, NSW

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 · Posted: Mon 19 Mar 2018, 17:48 Post subject:

Any updates?

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 1327 Location: Chatswood, NSW

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 Rolling Eyes

so will try scanning some more recipes to better confirm the process, and will update, provided no one gets poisoned Shocked

.

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 · Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 94

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 · Posted: Sun 13 May 2018, 09:50 Post subject:

Identify your Puppy version.

Saladin · Joined: 27 Aug 2011 Posts: 94

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 · Posted: Sun 13 May 2018, 09:55 Post subject:

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

quantumbox · Joined: 03 Feb 2017 Posts: 24 Location: Indonesia, Bali

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 · Joined: 03 Feb 2017 Posts: 24 Location: Indonesia, Bali

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2018, 08:01 Post subject:

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 · Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2018, 13:54 Post subject:

Hello rcrsn51.

Thanks for your usefull pdf utility.

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

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2018, 14:12 Post subject:

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

musher0 · Posted: Tue 18 Dec 2018, 14:49 Post subject:

Thanks, rcrsn51.

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I also get

anewuser · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 93

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)

DuMar · Posted: Sat 02 May 2020, 10:44 Post subject:

Hi rcrsn51,

I'm testing the alpha version from Fossapup and I installed PeasyPDF right away, can't miss it. Very Happy

Works fine with Fossapup too.