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!
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.
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
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
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
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
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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