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Creating PDF's Easily
by cirehawk on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @08:58

An important feature I'd like to see in either or both of these is the ability to easily create PDF's from scanned documents. With full acrobat, you can scan a document directly into a PDF. In fact, if you have multiple pages to scan it will keep prompting you for the next page until you indicate you are done. I use that feature to archive my important records. It's really about the only time I NEED windows. If this feature is added I will be a happy camper.

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Re: Creating PDF's Easily
by Michal on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @10:46

You can quite easily use convert from ImageMagick to do the same, just scan everything to jpg and do convert *.jpg output.pdf. Might take some memory though.

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Re: Creating PDF's Easily
by superstoned on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @10:49

you can't use kooka, and print the resulting file to a pdf??? Works fine here. Every KDE app can print to PDF, and why would a viewer support scanning? Or burning to cd, or sending email etcetera? Basic page-oriented editing, ok, copy-paste from it, printing, saving, editing meta-data, annotating - fine. But scanning?!?

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Re: Creating PDF's Easily
by cirehawk on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @12:47

Of course I can do that. But that takes a step or two more than the process I'm talking about. Plus, I haven't been able to easily combine multiple pages into a single PDF file. Maybe Kooka is the right place to put this functionality.

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Re: Creating PDF's Easily
by otherAC on Thursday 15/Feb/2007, @18:20

it includes even more steps, but you can insert all scanned images into a word processor (kword, openoffice writer/draw) and then save/export/print it to pdf

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Re: Creating PDF's Easily
by Odysseus on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @16:35

Yeah, I've been thinking about writing a small program to do that sort of thing (working title Kopier), just a basic app that simply joins up input from scan or file to output to print, file or fax. Think of it as a software MFC. The underlying KDE framework is there, it's just finding a nice way to join it all together.

I don't see this as part of a universal document viewer program.

John.

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Re: Creating PDF's Easily
by cirehawk on Wednesday 14/Feb/2007, @17:23

Cool. If you were to do that, you would have my gratitude (not that all the KDE developers don't have it). I'd be happy to test it when or if you get to that point.

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