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rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 24 May 2014, 11:11 Post subject:

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 · Posted: Sat 24 May 2014, 13:21 Post subject:

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

charlie6 · Posted: Sun 25 May 2014, 02:08 Post subject:

Hi rcrsn51,
thanks a lot ! great !! Smile

(... done at wake-up ...)
Here is the updated french translation.
Cheers, Charlie

Papy · Joined: 13 Jul 2014 Posts: 41

This tool is simply Very Happy

Thanks.

charlie6

Hi rcrsn51,
... just to mention that:
the conversion to pdf of graphic files creates a CONVERTED.PDF in /tmp/PDFCONVERT folder, using the extension .PDF with capital police.

I've experimented that a .PDF (capital character) to-a-mail-attached-document is unreadable for the recipient under Linux - ... don't know for WIndows users - (i'm using the across Europe well know "scarlet" webmail provider). Modifying the extension to .pdf (lowcase character) solves the «problem».

Did someone already experience this ?

Thanks for any answer.

Cheers, Charlie

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 3203 Location: France

rcrsn51

edoc · Posted: Fri 30 Jan 2015, 21:39 Post subject:

Your JPEG resizing app works so well ...

Is it possible to make PeasyPDF bulk-convert a folder of .doc text documents with pictures into PDF files?

I know that LibreOffice can do that but I believe it would be one at a time.

I could use http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-pdf but that's also one at a time.

If the conversion has to be done inside AbiWord or LibreOffice could a script pointed at the parent folder containing all of the sub-folders walk through them all & make the conversions unattended?

I have 51 folders containing .doc files with images - I'd like a PDF version of each - preferably written to the same folder.

Our son has manually converted 12 files in one folder to EPUB via http://ebook.online-convert.com/convert-to-epub but I'm guessing his patience would expire quickly if I asked him to convert the 718 additional files one at a time.

WDYT?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 31 Jan 2015, 05:03 Post subject:

Hotdog · Joined: 29 Sep 2011 Posts: 146 Location: Georgia USA

rcrsn51,

Just a public note here to say, "Thank You", for PeasyPDF. I am using it in Precise 5.7.1 full install with excellent results. Until discovering this thread I was not aware that a new version of PeasyPDF and ghostscript were available for us. They are now installed and working admirably.

Folks like you who selflessly contribute to Puppy is why folks like me use it as our only operating system. You are appreciated!

greengeek

Thanks for PeasyPDF ! - although I currently have old version v2.4 (installed by default in Slacko 5.6) I have found it very useful for reducing the size of PDF files created by Softmaker Freeoffice and Textmaker. Here is what I do:

Export the document as pdf from Textmaker
Make a blank page and export it as pdf from Textmaker
Run Peasypdf and "add" the two files separately then "save" them.

My original pdf was 893kB and the pdf output from Peasy is now 226kB.

Now that I have found this thread I will install and test the newest version of PeasyPDF - it probably has an even easier way to achieve the same thing.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 16 Jul 2015, 05:23 Post subject:

PeasyPDF v3.3 is posted above. See the Update note.

Smithy · Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 1157

Brilliant little Swiss knife tools rcrn51.
Is there a way that it can open a pdf, populate the text and then save the pdf wysiwyg style?
Maybe it could be combined with a little word processor to achieve this?

I found the extract text as a txt file difficult. The text is editable. The print to file is awkward, cups or ghostview system, some problems.

That grab a folder of jpgs etc and turn into a pdf is excellent.

EDIT:
Just tried Shinobar's Abiword Portable, neat, except loading a pdf file doesn't include pictures and boxes and stuff, and they are lost when saving as pdf.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94415

Scribus, meh, kingsoft meh, libre draw, complicated editing of pdf.
Any apps that use QT absolutely destroy my puppy, probably because I have wrong one's that are just enough for Qtractor or the glibc or something.
Evince is standard in this Puppy and is outstanding.
Now if that would just have an edit and save mode that would be good!
So the nearest is Abiword for pdf population.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 03 Sep 2015, 07:46 Post subject: