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Re: Computist Project: finished.

In article <1159376168.843467.36380@b28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
Eric <englere_geo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>Scott Alfter wrote:
>> I've also converted the Computist and Hardcore Computing collections to
>> PDF
>
>What program did you use for this? I'd like to have a decent program that
>lets me do this, but I don't like the steep learning curve of Acrobat (and
>I don't care for its price, either!).

JPEG images are converted to PostScript with jpeg2ps:

http://www.pdflib.com/products/more/jpeg2ps.html

TIFF images are converted to PostScript with tiff2ps, which is part of
LibTIFF:

http://www.remotesensing.org/libtiff/

GIF images (there were maybe two or three in the collection) are converted
to PostScript with giftopnm and pnmtops, which are part of Netpbm:

http://netpbm.sourceforge.net/

The PostScript files are then concatenated and converted to PDF with
Ghostscript:

http://www.ghostscript.com/

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