Re: scan to pdf

[Olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be>]

Matt Price wrote:
> hey folks,
>
> I need to scan in some documents and then distribute them
> electronically as pdf files.  It's pretty important thatthe new file
> look just like the original, so I don't want to do something clumsy
> like save the individual pages as tiff files form gimp/sane and then
> paste them into openoffice (though I'll do that if I have to).
>
> what do other folks do?
>
> matt
>
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Use convert which will convert (almost) any image format to whatever you 
want (including pdf). You can also use pdftk which will allow you to 
assemble pdf files. You can easily write a shell script to automate the 
process.

Olive