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From: Su-Z-Q on 10 Apr 2010 09:27 In article <drache-B399E6.18330008042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > I've been trying to figure out how to put multiple pages of music into a > .pdf without buying a fancy Adobe whatever. I can save as .pdf with my > print program, but the only way I can put multiple pages of music > together is to paste them as .jpeg into AppleWorks and shrink them, > which is a lot of work. It does work, however. > > Someone here must know a better way that I don't have to buy something > fancy for, I hope. http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml $30 for a single license. Been using it for years. Works great. Add pages, delete pages, add a whole file and then delete the pages you don't want.....it does it all. -- Facts are stubborn, but statistics are more pliable. Mark Twain
From: erilar on 10 Apr 2010 10:11 In article <hppucq$eqe$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Su-Z-Q <reply(a)this.group> wrote: > In article <drache-B399E6.18330008042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > > I've been trying to figure out how to put multiple pages of music into a > > .pdf without buying a fancy Adobe whatever. I can save as .pdf with my > > print program, but the only way I can put multiple pages of music > > together is to paste them as .jpeg into AppleWorks and shrink them, > > which is a lot of work. It does work, however. > > > > Someone here must know a better way that I don't have to buy something > > fancy for, I hope. > > http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml > $30 for a single license. > Been using it for years. Works great. Add pages, delete pages, add a whole > file > and then delete the pages you don't want.....it does it all. Thank you! I think I'm going to try this out. I've tried following the suggestions about using Preview and it doesn't work at all. When I tried to save a group of things I had opened in Preview as a single ..pdf, all it put into the .pdf was the one first in line; the rest were ignored. Pasting a combination of text(lyrics only) and .jpg(sheet music) into the only program I have that will give me sequential pages in a single document, my word processor, is a major pain 8-( -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo
From: William Yeo on 10 Apr 2010 16:11 In article <drache-C562D9.15281809042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: Hail > In article <wcyeo-652D6C.13025109042010(a)news.giganews.com>, > William Yeo <wcyeo(a)invalid.org> wrote: > > > Hail > > > > In article <drache-B399E6.18330008042010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > > I hope this answers your question > > That sounds MUCH simpler! I just saved this to my desktop 8-) A subsequent posting indicated that this didn't work for you. Since I use it quite often, it seems likely that I screwed up the directions, as I was working from memory. I have prepared a short set of instructions with screen captures of the steps should you care to try again. They can be found at: <http://dl.dropbox.com/u/425763/PicsToPDF.pdf>
From: AES on 10 Apr 2010 17:57 In article <hppucq$eqe$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Su-Z-Q <reply(a)this.group> wrote: > http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml > $30 for a single license. > Been using it for years. Works great. Add pages, delete pages, add a whole > file, then delete the pages you don't want.....it does it all. Don't mean to throw cold water on this or any of the other helpful low-cost solutions that have been proposed -- but for not too much more money you can acquire whatever is currently the lowest-end version of Adobe Acrobat. Primary benefit of doing this is that you acquire a considerably larger toolbox of tools for working with PDF files; primary downsides (besides cost) are that you have to learn to use this more complex toolset (although I've generally found Acrobat to be a pretty friendly application) and in my setup at least Acrobat is horribly slow in Quitting or shutting down -- it causes any system Restart or Shut Down that I initiate to time out before completion, unless I deliberately Quit Acrobat first.
From: erilar on 10 Apr 2010 18:39
In article <siegman-5DDEB5.14573910042010(a)sciid-srv02.med.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > In article <hppucq$eqe$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Su-Z-Q <reply(a)this.group> wrote: > > > http://www.monkeybreadsoftware.de/Freeware/CombinePDFs.shtml > > $30 for a single license. > > Been using it for years. Works great. Add pages, delete pages, add a whole > > file, then delete the pages you don't want.....it does it all. > > Don't mean to throw cold water on this or any of the other helpful > low-cost solutions that have been proposed -- but for not too much more > money you can acquire whatever is currently the lowest-end version of > Adobe Acrobat. Except for Reader, the low-end price I find for AA is almost $100 dollars. > Primary benefit of doing this is that you acquire a considerably larger > toolbox of tools for working with PDF files; primary downsides (besides > cost) are that you have to learn to use this more complex toolset > (although I've generally found Acrobat to be a pretty friendly > application) and in my setup at least Acrobat is horribly slow in > Quitting or shutting down -- it causes any system Restart or Shut Down > that I initiate to time out before completion, unless I deliberately > Quit Acrobat first. I'd just like to be able to pluck a page or two out of a .pdf now and then and slap together a few of my own. No high-end stuff. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.mosaictelecom.com/~erilarlo |