SPUG:How to bundle images in PDF? (fwd)

Itay Furman itayf at fhcrc.org
Thu Jul 3 13:39:39 CDT 2003


I probably should have sent it to the list in the first place...

	Itay


---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 12:54:02 -0700 (PDT)
From: Itay Furman <itayf at fhcrc.org>
To: Tim Maher <tim at consultix-inc.com>
Subject: Re: SPUG:How to bundle images in PDF?


If you're using linux 'convert' is a quick solution:
	convert -adjoin slide*.jpg  presentation.pdf
There are many controls for the quality, placement
and annotation of the individual images.
	man convert
for details.

NOTE:
If you encounter problem in converting all 30 slides into a single pdf
try to convert only half of them. (It helped me when I tried to create
an html based visual directory :-)
I don't understand the origins of the different responses, though :-[

	Itay

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On Sat, 28 Jun 2003, Tim Maher wrote:

> SPUGgles,
> 
> In order to package my conference slides
> (http://teachmeperl.com/slides_03.html) more conveniently
> for downloading, I'd like to be able to bundle the 30+ JPEGs
> of each talk into a single PDF file.  I know this won't save
> me any storage 8-},  but it would allow people to download a
> single file, that they can page through using Acrobat Reader
> (or GhostView).
> 
> I've looked at a few PDF* modules, but none of them seems to
> have a method for incorporating images; all they talk about
> is text.
> 
> Can anybody give me some pointers in how to accomplish this
> goal, or give me a better alternative?
> 
> 
> -Tim
> P.S. Although I compose my presentations using a modified
> Magicpoint system (see http://teachmeperl.com/mg2mgp.html),
> and there is ostensibly a Magicpoint to PDF converter, it
> rarely works. Although it can create working PDFs for small
> or simple presentations, for my large and complicated ones,
> the PDFs generate inscrutable errors ("/undefined", etc.) when
> you try to view them, which is why I've given up on distributing
> in that format.
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