Thanks to Dick, Bill, and Al (plus Thomas Johnson and Samuel Wright in
direct replies), I got the the PDF built. Somehow though, the scanner
recorded each page scan as a BMP, and the resulting PDF of 38 pages came
to 3.7 megabytes, and was somewhat fuzzy. Might be because I chose
grayscale instead of black-and-white, because some of the artwork in the
chapters was in multiple shades of gray.
I have found no settings in the "documentation" of CanoScan's software
that would let me capture the scans as jpegs, and I SUPPOSE I can use
PhotoShop to convert each image from BMP to JPG, and sharpen them. Might
be an idea time to cozy up with PhotoShop automation.
I would guess that the code that builds PDFs from collections of
documents could accept JPEG documents as easily as BMP ones.
Since this is something I'm constructing for my writing samples
portfolio, it should be better than it is now.
--Thanks for the help,
Guy K. Haas
Software Exegete in Silicon Valley
Guy K. Haas wrote:
> I spent quite a bit of time scanning the cover and about 37 pages of a
> bound manual for my portfolio. I am using the Canon CanoScan 3000F
> scanner with the CanoScan Toolbox software. I started the task on
> Wednesday night and did not finish until almost 1 a.m. Thursday.
...
>
> Can anyone here advise me on how to take a series of .BMP files and
> craft them into a PDF?
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