[Mageia-dev] Creating PDFs from a scanned document

Sat Mar 31 21:26:37 CEST 2012

2012/3/31 Florian Hubold <doktor5000 at arcor.de>:
+> Am 31.03.2012 12:50, schrieb Robert Fox:
+>> On Sat, 2012-03-31 at 11:36 +0100, Donald Stewart wrote:
+>>> On 31 March 2012 11:31, Pascal Terjan <pterjan at gmail.com> wrote:
+>>>> On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:22, Robert Fox <list at foxconsult.net> wrote:
+>>>>>
+>>>>> On a similar note, what ever happened to a standard PDF printer setup in
+>>>>> the mcc (printerdrake is gone I believe) . . .  When I choose set up
+>>>>> printers, I can only add physical and networked printers, but no option
+>>>>> to add a PDF printer.  It was very helpful to have a generic PDF printer
+>>>>> driver setup as a virtual printer (like PDFcreator)
+>>>>>
+>>>>> Anyway, I digress . . . . Thanks again.
+>>>>
+>>>> I think Gtk apps have had the Print to File choice in the list of printers
+>>>> for a few years
+>>> Same for kde, well at least okular and gwenview and the kipi plugins.
+>> I found that cups-pdf wasn't installed which explained why
+>> system-config-printer didn't see a generic PDF printer.  Oddly enough,
+>> LibreOffice sees it, but I can't print to it (don't get a dialog to save
+>> to file) - but I found out when I "print to file" - it worked and made a
+>> real small output (87k file)
+>>
+>> FYI -
+>> R.Fox
+>>
+>>
+>>
+> I'm using simple-scan to scan directly to PDF, it works well,
+> it's easy to use, also produces multi-page PDFs, just scan
+> all the pages that you want sequentially and then save to
+> PDF.
+
+What about gscan2pdf? It can scan several pages into 1 pdf as well.
+