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#46 Post by charlie6 »

rcrsn51 wrote: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 ... :oops: i'd only remembered that, in some circumstances, i'd got an error message trying to fax pdf files.

Charlie

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#47 Post by 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!

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#48 Post by rcrsn51 »

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

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#49 Post by charlie6 »

Hi rcrsn51,
thanks a lot ! great !! :)
(... done at wake-up ...)
Here is the updated french translation.
Cheers, Charlie
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#50 Post by Papy »

This tool is simply :D :D :D
Thanks.

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.PDF .pdf capital vs low case characters

#51 Post by 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

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charlie6 wrote:Here is the updated french translation.
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Re: .PDF .pdf capital vs low case characters

#53 Post by rcrsn51 »

charlie6 wrote:I've experimented that a .PDF (capital character) to-a-mail-attached-document is unreadable for the recipient under Linux ... Modifying the extension to .pdf (lowcase character) solves the «problem».
Interesting. I chose the upper-case name CONVERTED.PDF so it would be easy to identify and I assumed that users would rename it to something else.

I don't know why an e-mail service would reject the name. Maybe they have a list of legal file types that they will allow as attachments, but only lower-case file extensions are on the list.

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#54 Post by edoc »

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.

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#55 Post by rcrsn51 »

edoc wrote:Is it possible to make PeasyPDF bulk-convert a folder of .doc text documents with pictures into PDF files?
No. PeasyPDF can bulk-convert individual pictures into PDF, but it has no ability to work with .doc files.

[Edit] This is possible using LibreOffice and a bit of script:

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for F in *.doc; do libreoffice --convert-to pdf  $F; done

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#56 Post by Hotdog »

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!
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#57 Post by 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.

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#58 Post by rcrsn51 »

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

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#59 Post by Smithy »

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.

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#60 Post by rcrsn51 »

Smithy wrote:Is there a way that it can open a pdf, populate the text and then save the pdf wysiwyg style?
[Edit] See the discussion about Xournal on page 5.
The print to file is awkward, cups or ghostview system, some problems.
Please explain.
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#61 Post by Smithy »

Xournal breaks Dpup Wheezy rcrn51, the firewall disappears and the hard drive icons turn into a funny looking "app icon" or something and on the other QT pdf progs things break or lock up.
I' m trying to get Geoffrey's Master PDF Editor 3 installed:
Screenshots and paste terminal is now broken, will have to reboot.

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#62 Post by rcrsn51 »

Smithy wrote:Xournal breaks Dpup Wheezy
No kidding. I apologize. I use a repackaged Xournal as a portable app, so I haven't run smokey01's PET installer recently. It has serious problems with many Puppies.

One wonders how many other people have experienced this corruption but couldn't be bothered to report it.

I have rebuilt the Xournal PET package to be Puppy-compatible and have tested it successfully in a variety of Puppies. It is small enough to be an attachment.

The on-line documentation is here.

Please test.

Bill

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Update: The 0.4.8.2016 version will run in Lupu 528 with a symlink:

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cd /usr/lib
ln -sf libpoppler-glib.so.4.0.0 libpoppler-glib.so.8
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Updated 2017-09-30
Compiled from source in Precise
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#63 Post by Smithy »

You're a star Rcrn51! Works perfectly now in DPup 3.5.2.11.
That is a great little combo with your PDF swiss knife package.
I did get Geoffrey's PDF Editor to work, but only with Precise 5.7.1.
What I was doing previously was printing out pdf pages, scanning back in after writing annotations by hand and then using your swiss knife to turn them back into a neat 1.5mb pdf, (actually I quite like that look, but it is time consuming).

Thanks.

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#64 Post by rcrsn51 »

Smithy wrote:actually I quite like that look
Then you need a Wacom pen tablet so you can do the same thing in Xournal. :wink:

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#65 Post by step »

Hi rcrsn51, I'm continuing here the discussion we started in the Fatdog64 thread.
I'm investigating my options for n-up printing. Ideally, I'm looking for a CUPS printer backend that displays an n-up options dialog, allows viewing the imposed result and then printing it to a physical printer.
With PeasyPDF I can n-up an existing PDF file, but I can't n-up print other file types directly from PeasyPDF, correct? Perhaps PeasyPDF could be modified to act such a CUPS backend, but it seems to me that your direction with PeasyPDF is to provide am easy-to-use GUI for common PDF manipulation functions, rather than specialize on printing documents. So PeasyPDF doesn't seem the right choice for what I'm looking for, what do you think? I like the way PeasyPDF is consistently using Ghostscript for its functionality. GS can be slow but it's complete and accurate. I think when dealing with PDFs accuracy is more important than speed.
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