From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 16:44: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from skylla.rus.uni-stuttgart.de (skylla.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [141.58.231.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75EEC37B402 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 16:44:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from helpdesk (helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de [129.69.221.120]) by skylla.rus.uni-stuttgart.de with ESMTP id BAA13782; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:43:53 +0100 (MET) env-from (rusisnoc@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de) Received: from rusisnoc by helpdesk with local (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16m2Ib-00025O-00; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:43:53 +0100 Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:43:53 +0100 From: Georg Auernhammer To: Chip Wiegand Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: scanning docs into pdf format Message-ID: <20020316004353.GA7802@helpdesk.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> References: <20020315162101.6a504cb3.chip@wiegand.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20020315162101.6a504cb3.chip@wiegand.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I get to set up a second pc at work and will be putting FreeBSD on it. I > am wondering if anyone is using FreeBSD for this type of work - scanning > printed documents (up to 150pages) then creating pdf files of them? I > have to do this quite a lot, user/operator/instruction manuals. > Currently I use NT and Acrobat with my HP scsi scanner. So, the bottom > line is - will doing this on FreeBSD be any easier or harder than on NT? > What are the trade-offs? I don't want to make my job any harder just for > the sake of using a differant OS, you know what I mean? I'm scanning pics (lots) with sane, edit them with Photoshop and process them with a latex2pdf script But the PDF's are really big, just as PS. so i have to send them again through the Adobe Destiller, to get small files. non-Editing and just-Postsrcipting would be made on FreeBSD. But everything else..buy a MAC ;)) -- Georg Auernhammer Benutzerberater RUS, Admin Institut für Geophysik FTP-Admin, Mirror, W2k-Pool, W-LAN, ICafe Georg.Auernhammer@rus.uni-stuttgart.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message