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

On Wed, 25 Nov 2009 02:06:48 +0100
Sebastian Krause <[email protected]> wrote:

| 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
| `----
| 


I have added this to the notes in IM examples, File Formats, PDF
  http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#pdf_alturnatives

Question can that perl script 'fix' a PDF that IM generated, or is it
restricted to PDF's created by sam2p??




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