[Coco] Some help on CoCoXT and RGB-DOS

[John W. Linville]

On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 09:56:19AM -0400, tonym wrote:
> ---- Original Message ----
> From: "John W. Linville" <linville at tuxdriver.com>
> Sent: 6/3/2014 9:45:19 AM
> To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] Some help on CoCoXT and RGB-DOS
> 
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 09:28:37AM -0400, Frank Swygert wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 18:49:42 -0500
> > From: Frank Pittel<fwp at deepthought.com>
> > 
> > There are a lot of "pdf makers" for linux. I just did a bit of checking and xsane (scanning software) and gimp (more or less like photoshop) as well as libreoffice
> > and openoffice all will store files directly as pdf!
> > ==================================
> > 
> > Most, if not all, Linux distros install a PDF "printer". You simply print the file from any application to this "printer" and it will create a PDF document. That works for single files, if what you want to do is link all the photos into a single document you need to insert them into a document then "print" it.
> > 
> > As Frank P. was saying though, you can use almost any word processor, and most Linux WPs offer the option to "save as" a PDF file.
> 
> If it is literally compiling a group of photos into a single pdf,
> it is hard to imagine anything easier than the single "convert"
> command I posted in this thread yesterday...
> 
> Tried that - seems it didn't agree with keeping the photos in their alpha/numerical order, and just randomly inserted whichever photo wherever it wanted.
> I'll take a further peek later - not really too concerned at the moment, unless Daniel has issues.

I'm sure it is not so random as it may appear.  It almost assuredly
is that "*.jpg" gets expanded differently than you expect.

For more precise ordering, you can specify the input files individually
(i.e. without a wildcard):

	convert page1.jpg Page2.jpg PAGE3.jpg pAgE5.jpg output.pdf

If you share the naming convention of your files, then someone might
be able to suggest a better filename globbing pattern.

Hth...

John
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