5:54 a.m.
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a scanner and
use inkscape to "save to PDF"?
...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat
Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector data to do
it... just give me my fix!
6:01 a.m.
anon trol wrote:
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a
scanner and use inkscape to "save to PDF"?
...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat
Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector data to
do it... just give me my fix!
Hi Anon,
If you're looking for a totally free software that can create a PDF from
Image formats, PS and other PDFs, then my answer is PSTILL.
http://www.pstill.com/
It has port for almost every platform and can convert with a lot of
options. Though it's a command-line tool and you have to run it from
console window, it can even convert between color spaces too (like from
RGB to CMYK and from normal PDF to PDF/X-3 !!! too)
Cheers,
Andras
6:02 a.m.
I'm jonesing for an Acrobat
Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
Seems weird, if you are gonna scan something then just save it as a jpg or png
and be done with it.
If you want that image within a pdf file, I'm fairly sure imagemagick
(convert --help) can do it. There will be many others too.
/d
7:56 a.m.
anon trol wrote the following on 5/18/2007 8:54 AM:
Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a
scanner
and use inkscape to "save to PDF"?
...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat
Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector data to do
it... just give me my fix!
i favorite scanner app in ubuntu is kooka. scan your image, save it, then print to pdf
with
cups-pdf, then import into inkscape.
heathenx
8:04 a.m.
heathenx wrote the following on 5/18/2007 10:56 AM:
anon trol wrote the following on 5/18/2007 8:54 AM:
> Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a scanner
> and use inkscape to "save to PDF"?
>
> ...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat
> Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
>
> I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector data to do
> it... just give me my fix!
i favorite scanner app in ubuntu is kooka. scan your image, save it, then print to pdf
with
cups-pdf, then import into inkscape.
heathenx
whoops! i'm retarded. there is no import pdf in inkscape. i was thinking scribus
there. perhaps save
your scanned image as another format and bring it into inkscape that way.
sorry.
heathenx
4:08 p.m.
On Friday 18 May 2007 11:04, heathenx wrote:
heathenx wrote the following on 5/18/2007 10:56 AM:
> anon trol wrote the following on 5/18/2007 8:54 AM:
>> Does anyone know if there's an easy way to grab an image with a
>> scanner and use inkscape to "save to PDF"?
>>
>> ...I'm moving to linux-vile and I'm jonesing for an Acrobat
>> Professional/Distiller "make pdf from scanner" replacement.
>>
>> I don't even care if I have to convert raster data to vector
>> data to do it... just give me my fix!
>
> i favorite scanner app in ubuntu is kooka. scan your image, save
> it, then print to pdf with cups-pdf, then import into inkscape.
>
> heathenx
For linux users at least Gimp has provisions for utilizing Xsane
(scanner frontend) as one of the available aquisition tools. You just
have to move a copy of Xsane, or a link thereto, to a directory where
Gimp looks.
On my system it is:
/usr/local/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins
Since I generally need to massage and/or convert an image before using
it I more often than not use this method of activating Xsane.
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