Re: combining image files into a pdf

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David Timms wrote:
> Hi, I have image files of type:
> - png
> - tif  (b/w) - fax like
> - jpg
> that were produced by my scanner, during scan of a document.
>
> I've tried a few ways to achieve this, with limited results:
> - gscan2pdf: all png pages have a strong purple tint.
> - tiff2pdf: works for the tiff files
> - pdfedit: needs a pdf to start with, so not much help
> - pdf chain: uses pdftk to do manipulations; generates 0 byte pdf,
> output dialog seems to hang.
> - oopresentation/draw: doesn't like the tif files.
> and a few attempts with command line tools.
>
> I haven't found a way to (easily) combine those into a pdf. I would
> like to know if Fedora has such software already packaged, or another
> linux app that could perform this ?
>
> DaveT.
>
Dave,

 I do this with gimp by "printing" them to .ps files and the using
ps2pdf to "save" them as a pdf file.  Essentially, once they are in .ps
format you would 'cat file1.ps file2.ps file3.ps | ps2pdf - pdfname.pdf'.

Kevin

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