Re: [Simh] PDP-15/76
On Friday, May 6, 2016 at 5:25, Timothe Litt wrote: > As I noted to Al, it seems to me that since the original author has > let it go stale, it would be a good idea to setup a new repo and > consolidate the patches. After receiving Al's and my updates last month, Eric Smith (the original author) mentioned that he was thinking about putting tumble up on github. So I'm hopeful that the current version will be publicly available soon, either there or at his original site. -- Dave ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Thoughts on combining individual scanned pages
For what its worth, if you have pdf files from a scanner, you can combine them with command line tools on the Mac. See http://gotofritz.net/blog/howto/joining-pdf-files-in-os-x-from-the-command-line/ This recipe works well for me. -L ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] Thoughts on combining individual scanned pages
tiffcp works much better for myself as well, and gives me (relatively) complete control over the process with a reasonably straight forward command line. I scan at 300 & sometimes 600dpi. ImageMagick likes to run out of memory at those resolutions. 14 TIF Files: 6600x5100+0+0 1-bit Bilevel Gray 67.1KB (on average.) 976K total - A rather small number of files IMO. ImageMagick Convert: (convert *.tif output.pdf) Fails due to lack of free memory: [1159515.038485] Killed process 1462 (convert) total-vm:2551240kB, anon-rss:1414896kB, file-rss:509048kB (Yes, there are ways around that, but meh why would I want to have to remember "-limit memory 64 -limit map 128" to every time I run the command? - Have you seen my typing?) tiffcp: -bash-4.3$ tiffcp *.tif output.tiff -bash-4.3$ tiff2pdf output.tiff -o output.pdf -bash-4.3$ ls -l output.pdf -rw-rw-r-- 1 X X 920748 May 6 17:51 output.pdf No problem at all. I can control the bit depth, and the compression methods applied to the tiff file (and indirectly the PDF) with a fair amount of ease. The only catch is you sometimes need to remove tags from the TIF files. Particularly tag 297 (Page Number), lest your PDF get confused. tiffinfo, and tiffunset are your friends in those cases. YMMV, of course.Please feel free to ask questions - presumably off list - if anyone wants further details. David On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 11:15 AM, Armistead, Jason . wrote: > One tool that I have found useful in the past is tiffcp, which is part of > the tools in the libTIFF distribution. > > http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/tools.html > > tiffcp makes it easy to combine multiple TIFF images into a single TIFF > file. > > tiff2pdf makes it easy to convert that multi-page TIFF fine into PDF. > > Hope this helps when archiving documentation from these old systems > > > Jason > > > > > ___ > Simh mailing list > Simh@trailing-edge.com > http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
Re: [Simh] PDP-15/76
On 05-May-16 23:42, J. David Bryan wrote: > On Thursday, May 5, 2016 at 6:01, Timothe Litt wrote: > >> I didn't have much luck with tumble (some time ago); it tended to >> complain about the tiff input formats. > Differences in the TIFF generators, I suppose. I've used tumble to produce > 500+ PDFs from scanned TIFFs (and JPEGs and PNGs) with no issues. > I don't doubt that it works for you; apparently I was unlucky. Before commenting, I retried it with a number of TIFFs that are test data for ImageMagick, distributed with TWiki and some scanned pages (HP and Brother scanners) I had at hand. I tried both the version from 2003 that you pointed Mattis to and the later version. Neither worked with any file. >> I do have a more recent version in my archive; Don't recall where I >> found it > I sent it to you in August 2013. ;-) > > -- Dave > Even though it didn't work out for me, thanks again! As I noted to Al, it seems to me that since the original author has let it go stale, it would be a good idea to setup a new repo and consolidate the patches. Handing this sort of tool around in e-mail forks seems a bit hit-or-miss. e.g. you pointed Mattis to the older version, but you must also have the newer one :-) I don't mean to be critical - help is always appreciated. Setting up a repo on GitHub is quick and painless... smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature ___ Simh mailing list Simh@trailing-edge.com http://mailman.trailing-edge.com/mailman/listinfo/simh
