How to create a multi-page JPG or PDF

**Jonathan Williams** · November 2nd 14, 03:24 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

nospam wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:49:22 -0400:

talk about overcomplicating things.

The simple answer would be two simple steps:
1. Point Firefox to
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/y...s-gallery.html

2. Press File Print and save as PDF.

But that, simple answer, fails, every time.

Nobody can print that page to PDF.

Why?

**Jonathan Williams** · November 2nd 14, 03:26 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

Savageduck wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:17:51 -0700:

I have several solutions, but nothing for the folks using Linux.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_1002.jpg.pdf

That's not anything like what the page looks like, but, at least
it contains the images, as separate images (which wasn't what was
wanted, but, could work in the end, but it's missing almost all
the images).

But what is strange is that *nobody* (least of all me), can simply
print that page to PDF and have it look like the web page.

Why is printing to PDF failing so miserably on all of us?

**Jonathan Williams** · November 2nd 14, 03:42 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

Thad Floryan wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:52:28 -0700:

The "Screengrab (fix version) 0.98.02c" addon to Firefox

Voila!
That did the trick!
Woo hoo! Thanks.

Here's the how to:

1. Install the Screengrab Extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...b-fix-version/

NOTE: It's critical that this is an "extension" and not an "addon",
as the general rule is never add an addon to Firefox if you care
to remain anonymous (see www.panopticlick.eff.org for details).

2. Notice the privacy losing feature in the settings, so, disable
that sucker *before* you use the extension!
http://i58.tinypic.com/wmfpxs.jpg

3. Point your now-extended Firefox to the stated web site:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/y...s-gallery.html

4. Save as a very long PNG (you can also save as JPG with % compression).
The default file name will be:
Sketch_Guy_Personal_Finance_on_a_Napkin_-_Interactive_Feature_-_NYTimes.com_-_2014-11-01_20.33.44.png
http://i60.tinypic.com/v7ch2o.png

Voila! Thanks! You're a genius!

**Savageduck[_3_]** · November 2nd 14, 03:43 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

On 2014-11-02 03:26:32 +0000, Jonathan Williams said:

Savageduck wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 12:17:51 -0700:

I have several solutions, but nothing for the folks using Linux.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/screenshot_1002.jpg.pdf

That's not anything like what the page looks like, but, at least
it contains the images, as separate images (which wasn't what was
wanted, but, could work in the end, but it's missing almost all
the images).

But what is strange is that *nobody* (least of all me), can simply
print that page to PDF and have it look like the web page.

Why is printing to PDF failing so miserably on all of us?

Try this:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1295663/FileChute/Sketch%20Guy.pdf

--
Regards,

Savageduck

**Jonathan Williams** · November 2nd 14, 03:56 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

**Jonathan Williams** · November 2nd 14, 04:18 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

Peter Pearson wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:17:35 +0000:

FWIW, bunching screenshots into a PDF is pretty easy, using
ImageMagick's "convert" and the PDF toolkit pdftk:

$ for f in Screenshot*.png; do convert $f ${f%png}pdf; done
$ pdftk Screenshot*.pdf output bigfile.pdf

Since I munged the XML file into a simple wget script, I downloaded all
the JPG files, which, lent itself to this program above.

But I'm confused about the f% syntax.
I'm used to %f syntax; but what is f%?

It's not a typo, because it worked to create a 12MB PDF!
$ for f in *.jpg; do convert $f ${f%jpg}pdf;done
$ pdftk *.pdf output bigfile.pdf

**Jonathan Williams** · November 2nd 14, 04:21 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

J.O. Aho wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:20:15 +0100:

convert Screenshot*.png nytimes.pdf

Well, that was a lot easier!

$ convert *.jpg nytimes.pdf

**Thad Floryan** · November 2nd 14, 05:13 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

On 11/1/2014 7:25 PM, tlvp wrote:
On Sat, 1 Nov 2014 18:53:00 +0000 (UTC), William Unruh commented:

I think one could create a multi-page
.doc in Libre Office and export it as a PDF. One
Or just use pdfjoin.

Or pdftk (use the "cat" option, to concatenate umpteen 1-page PDFs into one
umpteen-page one). HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp

PDFSAM is far better and because it's Java-based it works on
every platform: *BSD, Linux, OpenIndiana, Solaris, Windows,
and UNIX and it's one of the most-used programs on all my
systems for splitting, merging, rotating, bursting, etc, any
PDF file:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF_Split_and_Merge
http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/PdfSam
http://www.pdfsam.org/

And it's free. Hmmm, web page appears to be down at the moment
but a traceroute works fine to mxd5.aruba.it [62.149.128.74]

Another great and free PDF editor, signer, et al program is
CABAReT-Stage:

https://www.cabaret-solutions.com/

Three screenshots of it on one of my CentOS systems:

http://thadlabs.com/PIX/CABAReT_STAGE_example.jpg
http://thadlabs.com/PIX/CABAReT_Stage_20131213.jpg
http://thadlabs.com/PIX/CABAReT_Stage_20131217.jpg

Thad

**Thad Floryan** · November 2nd 14, 05:30 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

On 11/1/2014 8:42 PM, Jonathan Williams wrote:
Thad Floryan wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 11:52:28 -0700:

The "Screengrab (fix version) 0.98.02c" addon to Firefox

Voila!
That did the trick!
Woo hoo! Thanks.

Here's the how to:

1. Install the Screengrab Extension:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fir...b-fix-version/

NOTE: It's critical that this is an "extension" and not an "addon",
as the general rule is never add an addon to Firefox if you care
to remain anonymous (see www.panopticlick.eff.org for details).

2. Notice the privacy losing feature in the settings, so, disable
that sucker *before* you use the extension!
http://i58.tinypic.com/wmfpxs.jpg

3. Point your now-extended Firefox to the stated web site:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/y...s-gallery.html

4. Save as a very long PNG (you can also save as JPG with % compression).
The default file name will be:
Sketch_Guy_Personal_Finance_on_a_Napkin_-_Interactive_Feature_-_NYTimes.com_-_2014-11-01_20.33.44.png
http://i60.tinypic.com/v7ch2o.png

Voila! Thanks! You're a genius!

Hi Jonathan,

You're very welcome. I've been using computers since the early 1960s
and I finally retired in 2008 after my last two employers went belly-up:
Sigaba (2006) and Levanta (aka Linuxcare, 2008).

FWIW, I've been using both UNIX and Linux since their respective Day 1s,
I ran the AT&T Silicon Valley UNIX Users Group for the entirety of its
existence [until AT&T abandoned UNIX] and I'm one of the three owners
of the Yahoo linux group:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/...tions/messages

Thad

**William Unruh** · November 2nd 14, 05:34 AM posted to alt.os.linux,comp.text.pdf,rec.photo.digital

On 2014-11-02, Jonathan Williams wrote:
Peter Pearson wrote, on Sat, 01 Nov 2014 17:17:35 +0000:

FWIW, bunching screenshots into a PDF is pretty easy, using
ImageMagick's "convert" and the PDF toolkit pdftk:

$ for f in Screenshot*.png; do convert $f ${f%png}pdf; done
$ pdftk Screenshot*.pdf output bigfile.pdf

Since I munged the XML file into a simple wget script, I downloaded all
the JPG files, which, lent itself to this program above.

But I'm confused about the f% syntax.
I'm used to %f syntax; but what is f%?
man bash

${parameter%word}
${parameter%%word}
Remove matching suffix pattern. The word is expanded to produce
a pattern just as in pathname expansion. If the pattern matches
a trailing portion of the expanded value of parameter, then the
result of the expansion is the expanded value of parameter with
the shortest matching pattern (the ``%'' case) or the longest
matching pattern (the ``%%'' case) deleted. If parameter is @
or *, the pattern removal operation is applied to each posiâ€
tional parameter in turn, and the expansion is the resultant
list. If parameter is an array variable subscripted with @ or
*, the pattern removal operation is applied to each member of
the array in turn, and the expansion is the resultant list.

It's not a typo, because it worked to create a 12MB PDF!
$ for f in *.jpg; do convert $f ${f%jpg}pdf;done
$ pdftk *.pdf output bigfile.pdf

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