PeasyPDF Convert/Join/Extract/Print

[rcrsn51]

Excellent. It looks like I gettexted everything.

[charlie6]

Hi rcrsn51,

Excellent. It looks like I gettexted everything.

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

[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]

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.

[charlie6]

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

[rcrsn51]

Starting at Line 46

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

So you should be able to add

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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.

[charlie6]

Hi again rcrsn51,

Starting at Line 46

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

So you should be able to add

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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:

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

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)

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    GIF)
      giftopnm "$CONVERTNAME" | pnmtops $OPTIONS > /tmp/pptemp.ps
      ;;

and around line 94:

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    GIF)
      giftopnm "$F" | pnmtops $OPTIONS > /tmp/pptemp.ps
      ;;

and it works also for a single file as also for a folder.

Thanks a lot
Charlie

[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/ma ... 1_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:

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elif [ $EXTRACTPS = "true" ]; then
  pdftops -f $PAGE -l $PAGE "$PDFNAME" - >> $EXTRACTPATH/EXTRACTED.ps

- and a PS button in the extract thumbnail: added this code at line489:

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		<radiobutton> 
          <variable>EXTRACTPS</variable>
          <label>PS</label>
        </radiobutton>

So it's ( ...«Yesss!» ) working !

Another idea now: straight integrate the ps conversion within the PRINT thumbnail:
Efax-gtk users have efax-gtk as printer - named FaxPrinter in the user's manual - listed in the print menu of their applications provided they have defined it doing in command line:

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/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p FaxPrinter -E -v socket://localhost:9900

Then, in peasypdf, that FaxPrinter is also listed in the printer list. But as pdf file cannot be straight efax printed, it would be nice to have some codes lines roughly looking like the following in peasypdfs script (i believe around line 298) ...(sorry if a lot of syntax mistakes ) :

if PRINTER=FaxPrinter
then pdftops $PRINTPDFNAME > /tmp/$PRINTPDFNAME/TOBEFAXED.ps
lp $OPTIONS -d $PRINTER TOBEFAXED.ps
fi

but ATM i'm not able to compose such a script in an acceptable delivery time...

I'll be nice if someone could do it...(i do not ever dare doubting you could'nt... )

Tons of thanks in advance !
Cheers, Charlie

[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.

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

in fact efax-gtk-3.2.13 (latest version in use here) does it (see screenshot attached) ... i remenber although some users reporting difficulties sending straight pdf files.
The efax-gtk README tells:

Sending faxes
-------------
Before sending a fax, it must be specified in the "Fax to send" box.
It must be in postscript format (a format produced by all Unix/Linux
word and document processors), and will be converted by the program
into the correct tiffg3 fax format. Recent versions of ghostscript
(which is used to convert the postscript file to tiffg3 fax images)
will also accept files in PDF format.

So i believe my ghostscript version allows it .. ...for one sigle page document, as also for multipage document (also just tested).

If you look in the PeasyPDF CONVERT section, it can actually convert a Poscript file to a PDF.

»»»-----> That's great !

Thanks again !
Charlie

[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.

[charlie6]

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?

answer: Yes, it woks.

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

answer: It works also from peasypdf without converting to PS. According to efaxs README, the current ghostscripts version would allow sending the fax as a PDF without converting to PS, for single and multipage pdf document as well .
So no more need then to perform a PS conversion step before sending the fax
»»--> so you might disregard my request for adding code lines for a specific FaxPrinter printer.
Sorry if discovering this now in real time ... i'd only remembered that, in some circumstances, i'd got an error message trying to fax pdf files.

Charlie

[rcrsn51]

OK. I'm going to implement this feature anyway as an option. I recall seeing another situation where the printer driver really wanted to see PS instead of PDF.

Stand by for v3.0!

[rcrsn51]

PeasyPDF v3.0 is posted above. Its Print function now supports older printer drivers that need Postscript source data instead of PDF.

[charlie6]

Hi rcrsn51,
thanks a lot ! great !!
(... done at wake-up ...)
Here is the updated french translation.
Cheers, Charlie

[Papy]

This tool is simply
Thanks.