? 2005-01-21?? 00:16 +0100?Sebastian Roeder??? > I managed to get my scanner Epson Perfection 1260 working with xsaen and > the sane-backend from epkowa. > > For university I often have to scan a lot of pages, which can be easily > saved as one pdf document with the Windows software from Epson. > > Now I am trying to do this with my Gentoo Linux, too. > > I first tryied cups-pdf virtual printer - but this works only with root > previlegs and is not very configurable. I can not collect files for > output with this solution either. > > Now, I?m thinking about a solution with ps files. ps2pdf can create pdfs > from postcript, the quality was good enough for my needs (I scan mostly > text files, most important is that the files can be read with every > Acrobat Reader on Win/Mac/Linux - I don`t need pre-press quality). > > What`s missing is a way to concate the files from the scanner page-1.ps, > page-2.ps ... to one ps file. > > I don`t know exactly whether psutils can do this, pstill would might be > an alternative possibility. > > Finally I?d like to end up in a little script, which I can give the > basename of the files as an argument and it make the pdf of all the ps > files with the basename in it. > > Example: scan2pdf exampledoc > # This script will collect exampledoc-1.ps + exampledoc-2.ps ... and > produce exampledoc.pdf > > I hope somebody of the pdf / ps pros here in the list can help me out or > give me some pointers, as I am not very familar with ps /pdf and > scripting at all. > > I have to mention that I can not use ghostscript-afpl, only "normal" > ghostscript because afpl is kind of broken in Gentoo atm (doesn`t print > with cups). > > Thanks for your help! > Sebastian > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
You may convert the ps file to pdf files one by one and then use pdftk to combine the individual pdf files into one. http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ Kite
