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Name: baker89
Date: October 2, 2007 at 19:50:27 Pacific
OS: XP SP2
CPU/Ram: P4 2.6HT/512mb
Product: Dell dimension 4600
Comment:

I am looking for a very specific program. I want to be able to take many jpegs and stitch them together to make one pdf file. I would really like for somebody to suggest to me which program I could use to accomplish this. thx



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Response Number 1
Name: justcuz (by whitevalley)
Date: October 2, 2007 at 20:18:51 Pacific
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Collect your pdf files the way you want them to appear, then "print" to "your" PDF printer... that's a short/simple explanation.

Printing to a "PDF Printer" of your choice is a very standard way to proceed.

"PDF Printers" are common -- if you don't already "have" one (MS Office, etc.)... get a free one -- they are absolutely common (just avoid the "pay" ones that stamp their watermark on your document).

I have to question why you want to proceed that way, when JPGs are even more common/platform-independent than PDF files.

Is this to simulate a slide-show of pics? Or is the "stitching" you want meant to create a "panorama-type" effect out of multiple photos? Your post: "...I am looking for a very specific program...." is not backed up by very specific details about your objective.


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Response Number 2
Name: baker89
Date: October 3, 2007 at 04:43:39 Pacific
Reply:

What I want to do is scan some sheet music as jpegs and have each page that i scan, a page in my pdf document. I am not sure I understand how i would "Collect your pdf files the way you want them to appear, then "print" to "your" PDF printer".

Thx


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Response Number 3
Name: Bryco
Date: October 3, 2007 at 06:19:50 Pacific
Reply:

http://createpdf.adobe.com/

They offer the first 5 pdf creations for free.

Otherwise the specific program used to create .pdf files is Adobe Acrobat for several hundred dollars.

HTH
Bryan


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Response Number 4
Name: justcuz (by whitevalley)
Date: October 3, 2007 at 09:50:16 Pacific
Reply:

Sorry, this won't cost you anything at all! Plus, you may even have all the tools necessary already. There seems to be a great mis-understanding about the nature of PDF files, but this is not the place/time to discuss it. It is similar to PostScript, wherein you create a page-desription script file.

In very simple and practical terms, you will "print" to a Virtualprinter, only you are not creating a PRN, a PS, or EPS, but a PDF.

Create your document in whatever program you already have that can display graphics in multiple pages (like your Office suite word-processor, for instance), then print it to that PDF "Virtual-printer". You may already be able to do that -- check your list of available printers, there may be one listed.

If not, there are many out there, as I mentioned. Google it. Here is a File-Hippo URL to one of them:
TinyURL link where you can also view screenshots, and a link to the developer:http://www.primopdf.com/

There are others, but not all are totally freeware.

End result, using Word as an example, you will:
• create your document - assemble/insert your sheet music scans into Word, in the page-order you like
• File/Print
• in the Print Dialogue box, select your PDF Printer, instead of your default Epson/HP/Canon, etc.
note that you will have to give your print-job a filename

Just give that a try, and you will soon "amaze your friends"!

I was trying to keep this short, and still managed to ramble on -- sorry about that. Just follow those links, and be done with it - lol


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Response Number 5
Name: baker89
Date: October 3, 2007 at 13:05:00 Pacific
Reply:

thx justcuz!! This may be a stupid question but can you scan pictures into word without going through another program such as photoshop. I should know how to do that but I just can't think of it right now.

thx


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Response Number 6
Name: baker89
Date: October 3, 2007 at 14:16:02 Pacific
Reply:

Never mind, i figured it out. I apologize for the previous post.

thx


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Response Number 7
Name: justcuz (by whitevalley)
Date: October 3, 2007 at 23:04:42 Pacific
Reply:

SEE? I told ya it was NOT gonna cost you hundreds of dollars!

Trying to explain it in few words was a challenge I know I did not do well, but my "promise" was that it was gonna be cheap & easy... and some of the "mystery" would be stripped right out of it

You took a plunge on my say-so alone -- that was rather daring on your part -- somehow you decided to trust me on this (the daring part -- thanks for that), and it worked out. Great!

And I thank you for posting back -- I hope other people "got" something out of our conversation (such as it was)... I just needed to know what was "specific" about your project.

I could discuss/expound further on the nature of PDF files, but you (and most people) could not care less -- and I'm, OK with that.

Hope you "amaze some friends"-- just don't let on how easy it was.. Sh-h-h-h!


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