SPUG:How to bundle images in PDF?

Tim Maher tim at consultix-inc.com
Sat Jun 28 11:11:01 CDT 2003


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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