VueScan multi-page PDF???

[AAvK]

I have VueScan 8.1.43 installed, and yes licenced, using a Umax Powerlook III.
I have an old_out_of_print_book I would like to PDF-ize.

Hamrick's home page says it supports what I want to do, I see the controls in the
GUI but I cannot find any instructions in the help .PDF or the other HTML one
that comes in the download.

I tried with all setting set correctly as can be imagined, I scanned three pages with
output set to .PDF and multi-page .PDF boxes checked.

Photoshop CS/8 will not assemble the pages either becase "they were not written
by Photoshop"...???

VueScan will only output single .PDFs... and when I File\Save Image, same thing,
the current image is saved alone, with a new name.

Anyone know how it is supposed to work? Ed? Wayne? Anyone?

 

[Wayne Fulton]

VueScan will only output single .PDFs... and when I File\Save Image, same
thing, the current image is saved alone, with a new name.

I have not actually used that feature, but see the VueScan Help (output tab)
where it says:

Make sure "Output|PDF file name" does not include the plus sign (+) or else
VueScan will create a new file for each new scan.

 

[Mendel Leisk]

I have not actually used that feature, but see the VueScan Help (output tab)
where it says:

Make sure "Output|PDF file name" does not include the plus sign (+) or else
VueScan will create a new file for each new scan.

I accomplished this some Vuescan versions back by outputting a
multi-page tiff, which I then converted to a multi-page pdf through
Adobe Acrobat. I believe (going from memory) in Acrobat I used the
pulldown "File|Open as pdf", and navigated to my multi-page tiff.

 

[Wayne Fulton]

I accomplished this some Vuescan versions back by outputting a
multi-page tiff, which I then converted to a multi-page pdf through
Adobe Acrobat. I believe (going from memory) in Acrobat I used the
pulldown "File|Open as pdf", and navigated to my multi-page tiff.

Yes, Acrobat has the menu File - Create PDF - Multiple Files, which
allows you to select multiple files to be imported into a new PDF file.
Then you must manually sort them into page order, which it conveniently
supports.

VueScan can scan and create mutipage files, either TIF and PDF (or
both), but this feature requires that you remove the + in the file name
box. That + says to create individual sequentially auto-numbered files.
It appears to override the Multi Page file declaration, at least the
Help says so.

 

[AAvK]

I accomplished this some Vuescan versions back by outputting a
multi-page tiff, which I then converted to a multi-page pdf through
Adobe Acrobat. I believe (going from memory) in Acrobat I used the
pulldown "File|Open as pdf", and navigated to my multi-page tiff.

Cool for you and congrats but I dongot but the readah, donwanna buy it neithah..he he...

 

[AAvK]

I have not actually used that feature, but see the VueScan Help (output tab)
where it says:

Make sure "Output|PDF file name" does not include the plus sign (+) or else
VueScan will create a new file for each new scan.

Excellent Wayne, thanks.

 

[Dances With Crows]

Cool for you and congrats but I dongot but the readah, donwanna buy it
neithah..he he...

What happened to your speling? Anyway, if you have a multipage TIFF,
you can use tiff2ps from SGI's tiffutils, followed by ps2pdf from
GhostScript. Like so:

tiff2ps -a -2 -h 11 -w 8.5 -c multipage.tif > multipage.ps
(generates PS for -all pages, level 2, 11" high and 8.5" wide,
-centered on page)
ps2pdf multipage.ps

Both tiffutils and GhostScript are free speech and free beer. You
probably already have tiffutils installed if you're using a Real OS, but
if not, go Googling. There may be a more GUI-fied way to do this on
Windows, but I don't feel like researching that so I'm just telling you
what works for sure. HTH,