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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:43:53 +0100
From:      Georg Auernhammer <rusisnoc@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
To:        Chip Wiegand <chip@wiegand.org>
Cc:        "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: scanning docs into pdf format
Message-ID:  <20020316004353.GA7802@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
In-Reply-To: <20020315162101.6a504cb3.chip@wiegand.org>
References:  <20020315162101.6a504cb3.chip@wiegand.org>

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> I get to set up a second pc at work and will be putting FreeBSD on it. I
> am wondering if anyone is using FreeBSD for this type of work - scanning
> printed documents (up to 150pages) then creating pdf files of them? I
> have to do this quite a lot, user/operator/instruction manuals.
> Currently I use NT and Acrobat with my HP scsi scanner. So, the bottom
> line is - will doing this on FreeBSD be any easier or harder than on NT?
> What are the trade-offs? I don't want to make my job any harder just for
> the sake of using a differant OS, you know what I mean?

I'm scanning pics (lots) with sane, edit them with Photoshop and process
them with a latex2pdf script

But the PDF's are really big, just as PS.
so i have to send them again through the Adobe Destiller, to get small
files.

non-Editing and just-Postsrcipting would be made on FreeBSD.
But everything else..buy a MAC
;))

-- 
Georg Auernhammer
Benutzerberater RUS, Admin Institut für Geophysik
FTP-Admin, Mirror, W2k-Pool, W-LAN, ICafe
Georg.Auernhammer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de

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