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by Bruce Mutton :: Rate this Message:

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I 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


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pdf creation for very small pages

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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

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Thanks
I'm already a convert to pdftk.
I'll try pdfcrop.
Bruce

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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
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Re: pdf creation for very small pages

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Hmm, pdfcrop seems not to work on my windows machine.
Get an infinite loop with the cursor flashing around in the cmd window.

???
Bruce

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Of Martin Luethi
Sent: Thursday, 9 July 2009 8:32 p.m.
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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
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Re: pdf creation for very small pages

by Vasily Vl. Suhachev :: Rate this Message:

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Hello!

You can use "doPDF" pdf virtual printer(freware) and your prefered office package to prepare and print text.



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From: "Bruce Mutton" <bruce.mutton@...>
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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

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pdf995.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.
>
>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
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>Therion mailing list
>Therion@...
>http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion

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Re: pdf creation for very small pages

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Thanks 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

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