What is the best way to make multipaged PDF's from a scanner. I can make single page ones, but not multipaged.

Thanks

You need to make the pdf out of a multipage tiff instead of a single page tiff. check the settings on your frontend, it may have this as an options tab somewhere.

Alternative/messy...

scan all pages as tiff
put all pages into a ps document
use ps2pdf to convert to multipage pdf

There are prbably other ways... the above was suggested by a careful reading of

apropos tiff

and

apropos pdf

I can't see a way to make multipage tiff's in sane or gimp. Am I missing something about what to scan with or am I too stupid to see it in these programs, or both?

The terminal command for copying and combining tiff images seems to be "tiffcp"

try:

man tiffcp

and see what it does...

basically, you do

tiffcp [options] file1.tiff file2.tiff ... fileN.tiff destination.tiff

this should produce multi-image tiffs from single tiffs.

the sane frontend you use may not have an option for that... I'd have though Gimp would do it, but, like you, I cannot find it.

Another workaround is to import the tiff files into Open Office (or another wordprocessor) and print to the pdf converter...

[note: I found this out by: apropos tiff, and skimming likely looking man pages for mention of multi-tiff images...]

Thanks, I think I finally got it - I was being very dense and badly damaged by windows.

Thanks

Wonderful - that happens.

However, it would be nice to know what you ended up doing... imagine you are another user with a similar question: you search these records and come up with this thread; you read to the end, getting more and more excited only to find no actual solution when the thread terminates!

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