Occasionally I have to sign some document (old style, with a pen) and send it electronically. Sometimes those are multi-page documents. Since it is uncommon to send it back as multiple image files after scanning, and multi-page image formats are uncommon as well, I’d like to send them as PDF file. Before I discovered this method, I used to insert the scanned images into OpenOffice Writer, and then create the PDF with it. This works, but it is a bit cumbersome to tell OpenOffice Writer to maximise the images (eliminating page borders, etc.), especially when there are a lot of pages. It just doesn’t feel like a real solution.<\/p>\n
So, here we go:<\/p>\n
Prerequisites:<\/strong><\/p>\n Procedure:<\/strong><\/p>\n That’s it – you now have your PDF file ready for sending!<\/p>\n Update (2010-02-08):<\/strong> Update (2010-03-01):<\/strong> Occasionally I have to sign some document (old style, with a pen) and send it electronically. Sometimes those are multi-page documents. Since it is uncommon to send it back as multiple image files after scanning, and multi-page image formats are uncommon as well, I’d like to send them as PDF file. Before I discovered this … Continue reading “Creating multi-page PDF files with GIMP and `convert`”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patrick-nagel.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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\nA dialogue window saying “MNG plug-in can only handle layers as animation frames” will come up – choose “Save as Animation” here and press the Export button. In the next dialogue you don’t need to make any changes to the defaults, just press the Save button.<\/li>\n
\nconvert document.mng document.pdf<\/code><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
\nAs chithanh pointed out in comment 1<\/a>, there is another convenient way to accomplish the same. It does not involve GIMP, but instead requires pdftk<\/a> to concatenate PDF files. Please see comment 2<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n
\nAnd yet another way (definitely the most straight-forward one, if you have the pages as single image files already) was pointed out by goffrie in comment 5<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"