solved: combining image files into a pdf

[David Timms]

On 09/26/2009 12:52 AM, David Timms wrote:
OK, eventually got this working in a way where the final output was both 
free of weird colour tints (white had become pink), and a reasonably 
small file size:

for each jpg image:
(losslessly rotate the jpg so that the text is the correct way up):
- jpegtran -verbose -rotate 270 orginal.pN.jpg -outfile rotated.pN.jpg

(generate a pdf for each rotated jpg):
- convert rotated.pN.jpg rotated.pN.pdf

for the png images:
- gimp open, transform -90degrees, reduce colours, saveas jpg
- convert to pdf as for jpg

for the tif images:
- gimp open, transform -90degrees, select rectangle, delete or fill to 
get rid of blotches in the scans, save tiff group 4 fax.

combine:
- pdfshuffler gui, import folder of single page pdf files
- export as single pdf.

test: in doc viewer, thank the list for tips on getting this done ;-)

DaveT.