El Jueves, 27 de Julio de 2006 13:48, escribió: > I'm occasionally converting scanned images to PDF files, people seem to > be able to read/print them easier. > > I have two scripts that basically run through the scanned .png files and > spit out a single PDF in the end. This works for LETTER size, but not > for LEGAL size, and I don't know why. What happens is this: The scan has > the proper format (legal size), conversion to pnm and then ps gives me a > properly legal sized postscript file - but as soon as ghostscript > processes it, the document gets shifted down by an inch or so, and an > inch of information gets lost at the end of the page. Why? I wish I > knew. The script is as follows: > > #!/bin/bash > cd ~scanner > > for filename in `ls *.png` ; do > echo -n "Converting $filename to PDF ... " > pngtopnm $filename | pnmtops -imagewidth=8.5 -imageheight=14 | > ps2pdf14 -sPAPERSIZE=legal - `echo $filename|cut -d. -f1`.pdf > rm $filename > echo "done. Source deleted." > done > > echo -n "Concatenating PDF files ... " > gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite > -sPAPERSIZE=legal -sOutputFile="/mnt/server/PDF/ScanImage `date +"%a %F > %H.%M.%S"`.pdf" `ls *.pdf` > echo "done." > echo -n "Cleaning up ... " > rm *.pdf > chmod -R a+rw "/mnt/server/PDF" > > echo "done." > Try to do not specify paper size on ghostcript, in some countries there exist a paper size so called "oficio" too like to "legal" that has about 1 inch (2cm) of less paper than "legal" we use to increase in our documents the footer margin to fit on "officio", I don't know how this should be translated. And why you do not try to use psutils, for doing everything including the join, and later just convert ps to pdf. :) -- Gustavo Guillermo Pérez Compunauta uLinux www.compunauta.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
