Package: pdfjam Version: 1.20-2 Severity: wishlist
I recently discovered this "howto" for creating a multi-page pdf from jpeg images: from http://bitprison.net/jpg_to_pdf : > first, let us change the name of the jpgs to pdf: > prename 's/\.jpg$/\.pdf/' *.jpg > then, join them with pdfjoin: > pdfjoin *.pdf > Done :) i first didn't believe my eyes, but it worked perfectly. reading about pdfjoin and how it internally works using LaTeX and so on, i started to get a idea about why it works. trying pdfjoin directly with *.jpg fails tough. so i had a look at the source. i beliefe that by just adding other file types that pdflatex does support into the pdfjoin script, you can easily add support jpeg, and propably png and eps too. a quick test by changing *.pdf|*.PDF) to *.pdf|*.PDF|*.jpg|*.JPG) in /usr/bin/pdfjoin seems to do just fine. i lack the understanding about possible situations where this might fail, but if it's save, this would be a nice and extreamely simple to implement feature enhancement -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable'), (100, 'testing'), (50, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages pdfjam depends on: ii tetex-extra 2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2 TeX Live: teTeX transitional packa ii texlive-fonts-recom 2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2 TeX Live: Recommended fonts ii texlive-latex-recom 2007.dfsg.2-1~lenny2 TeX Live: LaTeX recommended packag pdfjam recommends no packages. pdfjam suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
