Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:31:11 +0900 (JST) From: Hideyuki KURASHINA <rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> To: joe@tao.org.uk Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gif to ps (or pdf) - any ideas? Message-ID: <20040112.213111.59485211.rushani@bl.mmtr.or.jp> In-Reply-To: <20040111235951.GA17431@genius.tao.org.uk> References: <20040111235951.GA17431@genius.tao.org.uk>
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Hi, >>> On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 23:59:51 +0000, Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> said: > I've got a number of gifs, which are A4 pages scanned in high > resolution. What I'd like to do is to compile them together as a PDF. > Naively I initially tried using: > > for i in page*; do gif2ps $i >> out.ps; done; ps2pdf out.ps > > and it works to a fashion, but gif2ps doesn't appear to produce colour > postscript, and also it leaves a huge margin around the page which I'd > like to reduce. The other thing I'd like to do is to add a text message > to the bottom of each page describing where the original came from. > > Does anyone know of anything more sophisticated than gif2ps for the job? Try giftopnm foo.gif | pnmcrop | pnmtops -noturn >>foo.ps instead of gif2ps. -- rushani
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