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From: Salmon Egg on 2 May 2010 12:36
Some time ago I was scanning documents to pdf format using a Brother
multifunction printer. I was using the Brother Control Center II
software. The way it worked was that I could add sidebars to the scanned
documents. Then, I would pick one of the documents to receive the
others. I would just drag the thumbnails from some documents to the one
I wanted to use as a consolidated document.

With new (and improved?) Snow Leopard, Control Center no longer seems to
be installable. Preview documents seem to accept thumbnails from other
documents but then seems to lose the new pages when saved. I cannot even
figure out how to get a sidebar onto a pdf document at all using my
latest Adobe Reader.

I am confused. I will continue to try to figure it out. I would
appreciate any pointers as how to scan and combine pages into a pdf.

Bill

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An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: sbt on 2 May 2010 12:49
In article <SalmonEgg-3F0CD5.09361902052010(a)news60.forteinc.com>,
Salmon Egg <SalmonEgg(a)sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> Some time ago I was scanning documents to pdf format using a Brother
> multifunction printer. I was using the Brother Control Center II
> software. The way it worked was that I could add sidebars to the scanned
> documents. Then, I would pick one of the documents to receive the
> others. I would just drag the thumbnails from some documents to the one
> I wanted to use as a consolidated document.
>
> With new (and improved?) Snow Leopard, Control Center no longer seems to
> be installable. Preview documents seem to accept thumbnails from other
> documents but then seems to lose the new pages when saved. I cannot even
> figure out how to get a sidebar onto a pdf document at all using my
> latest Adobe Reader.
>
> I am confused. I will continue to try to figure it out. I would
> appreciate any pointers as how to scan and combine pages into a pdf.
>

Have you tried using Preview and opening the sidebar on the document
you want as the master and dragging the others (in order desired) into
the sidebar? Works for me and has since at least 10.5 -- never tried it
in Tiger.

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Spenser
From: AES on 2 May 2010 16:15
In article <020520100949433866%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid>,
sbt <dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:

> Have you tried using Preview and opening the sidebar on the document
> you want as the master and dragging the others (in order desired) into
> the sidebar? Works for me and has since at least 10.5 -- never tried it
> in Tiger.

Marvelous capability!, and totally new to me. But, tried it in Tiger
and couldn't see anything happening. Could you say a bit more on the
steps involved in this:

* How to make one item the "master"?
(Only open one item in Preview?)

* What do you drag into what? (drag into the main photo?
into the master thumbnail? drag additional items from the Finder?
or do they have to be open in Preview and you drag their
sidebar thumbnails?

* Does this work with jpegs? or only PDFs?

Thanks much.
From: Salmon Egg on 2 May 2010 17:37
In article
<siegman-E27B6D.13153602052010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>,
AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <020520100949433866%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid>,
> sbt <dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried using Preview and opening the sidebar on the document
> > you want as the master and dragging the others (in order desired) into
> > the sidebar? Works for me and has since at least 10.5 -- never tried it
> > in Tiger.
>
> Marvelous capability!, and totally new to me. But, tried it in Tiger
> and couldn't see anything happening. Could you say a bit more on the
> steps involved in this:
>
> * How to make one item the "master"?
> (Only open one item in Preview?)
>
> * What do you drag into what? (drag into the main photo?
> into the master thumbnail? drag additional items from the Finder?
> or do they have to be open in Preview and you drag their
> sidebar thumbnails?
>
> * Does this work with jpegs? or only PDFs?
>
> Thanks much.

I was wondering about that as well. At first, when Preview scanned, it
suggested saving as a jpeg file. I could make it save as a pdf file.
Then when I opened that file in Reader, I could not find out how to get
a sidebar. Could it be that Adobe did not want that capability in its
newer versions of Reader?

In any event, I am gonna fool around a bit more, but would sure like to
learn from others instead of plowing old ground.

Bill

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An old man would be better off never having been born.
From: sbt on 2 May 2010 17:39
In article
<siegman-E27B6D.13153602052010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES
<siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote:

> In article <020520100949433866%dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid>,
> sbt <dogbreath(a)chaseabone.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> > Have you tried using Preview and opening the sidebar on the document
> > you want as the master and dragging the others (in order desired) into
> > the sidebar? Works for me and has since at least 10.5 -- never tried it
> > in Tiger.
>
> Marvelous capability!, and totally new to me. But, tried it in Tiger
> and couldn't see anything happening. Could you say a bit more on the
> steps involved in this:
>
> * How to make one item the "master"?
> (Only open one item in Preview?)
>
Each separate PDF opens in its own window (at least on my Leopard and
Snow Leopard systems). Select the one you want to be the master and
drag the others to its sidebar.

> * What do you drag into what? (drag into the main photo?
> into the master thumbnail? drag additional items from the Finder?
> or do they have to be open in Preview and you drag their
> sidebar thumbnails?
>
Sidebar is target. You can also drag the sidebar thumbnails up and down
to reorder the pages.

> * Does this work with jpegs? or only PDFs?
>
Works here with everything I've tried (TIFF, JPEG, PNG, and PDF)

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Spenser
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