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pdf creation for very small pagesI have some text files that contain exploration notes
about the cave, often a few sentences to maximum half an A4 page. I’d like to place these around a ‘finished’
cave drawing using the map-image command. It works quite well, but a problem is that the pdf ‘generators’
that I have either make large white space borders or will not make ‘pages’
smaller than A4. Using raster images gives a poor result or results in a
large file size. Can anyone suggest a means of creating pdf files for
a small amount of text where the ‘page’ is sized according to
amount of text (much like Therion does for map outputs)? I’m using Windows… Bruce _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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pdf creation for very small pagesHi Bruce
Bruce Mutton writes: > I have some text files that contain exploration notes about the cave, often > a few sentences to maximum half an A4 page. pdfcrop pdftk Best, Tinu _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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Re: pdf creation for very small pagesThanks
I'm already a convert to pdftk. I'll try pdfcrop. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: therion-bounces@... [mailto:therion-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Martin Luethi Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 8:32 p.m. To: List for Therion users Subject: [Therion] pdf creation for very small pages Hi Bruce Bruce Mutton writes: > I have some text files that contain exploration notes about the cave, often > a few sentences to maximum half an A4 page. pdfcrop pdftk Best, Tinu _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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Re: pdf creation for very small pagesHmm, pdfcrop seems not to work on my windows machine.
Get an infinite loop with the cursor flashing around in the cmd window. ??? Bruce -----Original Message----- From: therion-bounces@... [mailto:therion-bounces@...] On Behalf Of Martin Luethi Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 8:32 p.m. To: List for Therion users Subject: [Therion] pdf creation for very small pages Hi Bruce Bruce Mutton writes: > I have some text files that contain exploration notes about the cave, often > a few sentences to maximum half an A4 page. pdfcrop pdftk Best, Tinu _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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Re: pdf creation for very small pagesHello!
You can use "doPDF" pdf virtual printer(freware) and your prefered office package to prepare and print text. -----Original Message----- From: "Bruce Mutton" <bruce.mutton@...> To: "'List for Therion users'" <therion@...> Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2009 20:21:33 +1200 Subject: [Therion] pdf creation for very small pages > > Can anyone suggest a means of creating pdf files for a small amount of text > where the 'page' is sized according to amount of text (much like Therion > does for map outputs)? I'm using Windows. > > -- WBR, Vasily _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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Re: pdf creation for very small pagespdf995.com it installs as a printer driver and when you print to it, it outputs a pdf file. by playing with the paper size settings of the "printer" you can output whatever size page you wish. At 11:21 09/07/2009, you wrote: >I have some text files that contain exploration >notes about the cave, often a few sentences to maximum half an A4 page. > >Id like to place these around a finished cave >drawing using the map-image command. > >It works quite well, but a problem is that the >pdf generators that I have either make large >white space borders or will not make pages >smaller than A4. Using raster images gives a >poor result or results in a large file size. > >Can anyone suggest a means of creating pdf files >for a small amount of text where the page is >sized according to amount of text (much like >Therion does for map outputs)? Im using Windows > >Bruce >_______________________________________________ >Therion mailing list >Therion@... >http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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Re: pdf creation for very small pagesThanks for all the suggestions. I think my problem stemmed from the use of MS Word (which doesn't surprise me). Even though it allows custom page sizes, it somehow tricks the pdf printer drivers into printing to A4 if the custom page size is very small. If I use a non microsoft applications it seems to work OK. I figured out what was going wrong with pdfcrop. As a first time python user I was making an embarrassing mistake. Windows users of python can find some tips here http://www.python.org/doc/faq/windows/#how-do-i-run-a-python-program-under-w indows I have not persevered however, because pdfcrop does not do quite what I want (according to it's supporting documentation). Bruce _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@... http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion |
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