Re: Change JPG images to fit into an A4 PDF page

Anthony Thyssen <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is not the final solution. you also need to pad the image to the right
> aspect ratio.  For A4  you will want one dimention to be the sqrt(2) of
> the other. That is part of the definition of the 'A-series'!
>
> Anyone like to try this?

Thanks a lot for the information. While playing around with the
options I found the tool sam2p (http://code.google.com/p/sam2p/)
which is specialized in converting images to PDF files and does
exactly what I need.

So for the archives, what I did was making all the preprocessing
with ImageMagick and then making the final conversation with
sam2p. It even brings a small script to adjust the result to an A4
paper:

,----[ http://sam2p.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/README ]
| Q58. Can sam2p generate a PDF which is scaled proportionally (i.e. keeping
|      the aspect ratio) to a specified page size, and centered on the page?
| 
| A58. No, but the Perl script sam2p_pdf_scale.pl bundled with sam2p can
|      post-process the file created by sam2p. For example, to scale and
|      center a PDF on an A4 paper, do:
| 
|        $ sam2p input.img output.pdf
|        $ sam2p_pdf_scale.pl 595 842 output.pdf
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Sebastian