[sane-devel] How to combine scanned images together and print them as a file

[Stephen Liu]

Hi Ulrich,

RH7.3
KDE
Xsane

Thanks for your advice.

I think that your alternative suggestion may suit my application.  I can 
save the scanned images as pnm, bmp, etc format and keep them in the 
same directory.  What I need is a tool to stack all images together to 
form a file with each image on separate page and then print them as pdf 
file.  I came from Windows, PageKeeper or OmniPager or PaperPort will do 
the job and then print all images to a pdf file forming a book.  They 
also have simple graphic edition tools.

Goggle search brought me to following site;
http://www.trilon.com/xv/xv.html

Now I have  xv-3.10a-13.i386.rpm  and  xv-3.10a.tar.gz  downloaded.  But 
from its document I am not quite sure whether xv is a freeware under GNU 
licence or a proprietory application.

I shall be much appreciated if you can pass me some additional 
information whether XV has more and less same feature as those Windows 
application as mentioned before

Thanks in advance.

B.Regards
Stephen Liu



Ulrich Deiters wrote:
> For a large number of pictures one might consider writing a script
> using tools of the PBMPLUS package:
> - use djpeg to convert JPEG to PNM format,
> - use pnmcat to combine two or more pictures you want to show on the
>   same page (if this is required),
> - use pnmtops to make PostScript files
> - and finally ps2pdf to make PDF.
> 
> Alternatively, you can use xv to view JPEGs and to print them to
> PostScript files; xv as a graphical interface that gives you some
> control over the placement of the picture on the page.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ulrich Deiters
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