Hello, everybody on Gentoo.
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 13:31:36 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
> as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
> a single document.
> Would somebody please suggest to me
On 09-Jul-20 19:32, Jack wrote:
> On 2020.07.09 13:25, Jarry wrote:
>> On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> > I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
>> > as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
>> > a single
On Thu, 2020-07-09 at 13:32 -0400, Jack wrote:
> I haven't done it, but would gimp work? It might be overkill, but
> something about layers sounds appropriate.
Gimp can in fact do this, I just tested it. You'll need to mess with
transparency perhaps, but as a proof-of-concept you can "paste
On 2020.07.09 13:25, Jarry wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given
me
> as output two separate files. I would like to join these together
into
> a single document.
>
> Would somebody please suggest to
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
> as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
> a single document.
>
> Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this
>
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 11:30:17 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
> > app-text/pdftk
> >
> > pdftk page-1.pdf page-2.pdf cat output both.pdf
> >
> > Lots of other useful tricks it can do with pdf files.
> >
>
> +1 for pdftk if you can stand java. I'm sure there are some GUI-based
> options that you
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 at 16:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
> as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
> a single document.
>
> Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this
>
Ghostscript is installed by most pdf distributions, and if not merge it.
Look here:
gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=myoutput.pdf
fil21.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf
best, Tamer
On 2020-07-09 17:39, Gerrit Kuehn wrote:
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 13:31:36 +
Alan Mackenzie
On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 13:31:36 +
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this
> with.
I use ImageMagick for joining pages scanned with xsane:
convert page1 page2 pages.pdf
Note that especially for pdf files, tools like pdftk or pdfjam will
Dear Alan,
I do it with ghostscript (for my cv's and employers proof of work) all
the time, and even change the header.
Then look here:
http://milan.kupcevic.net/ghostscript-ps-pdf/
the best short documentation I found so far.
best, Tamer
On 2020-07-09 15:31, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:35 AM John Blinka wrote:
>
> app-text/pdftk
>
> pdftk page-1.pdf page-2.pdf cat output both.pdf
>
> Lots of other useful tricks it can do with pdf files.
>
+1 for pdftk if you can stand java. I'm sure there are some GUI-based
options that you might prefer, but pdftk is
> I have no experience with either myself, but I think you can use
> either pdftk, or the pdfunite command in the poppler package.
+1 for poppler
It includes easy-to-use tools for uniting, separating, and converting
PDFs to other formats.
Also worth noting, pdftk requires java, which some users
On Thu, Jul 09, 2020 at 01:31:36PM +, Alan wrote in
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Hello, Gentoo.
I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
a single document.
Would somebody please suggest to
On Thu, Jul 9, 2020 at 9:31 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> Hello, Gentoo.
>
> I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
> as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
> a single document.
>
> Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate
Hello, Gentoo.
I've just scanned in a two-page document using sane, and it's given me
as output two separate files. I would like to join these together into
a single document.
Would somebody please suggest to me an appropriate package to do this
with.
Thanks!
Other than that, Gentoo just
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