| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
|
 Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 5:03 pm Post subject: PDFing a comic book, how to? |
 |
|
As a prize for the best students in my camp I was planning on giving them a comic book, actually 4 issues of Venom vs. Carnage as a single B4 volume.
But when I took the jpegs to the printer he said he couldn't format and print all the pages, even with the option of automatable "Actions" in Photoshop which I'm unsure he knew how to use. He told me I'd have to convert them to PDFs and join them together in one document then bring them back, and then he would print them.
I can make a PDF, but how do you join them together into a multipage document?
How much time is this going to cost me, any estimates? |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
mumblebee
Joined: 26 Jun 2004
Location: Andong
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 6:55 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| well, I have OpenOffice on my computer, and there is an option to make the document a pdf document. Can you paste scanned picutres into a open office (download it for free) and then just use that function? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:05 am Post subject: |
|
|
| mumblebee wrote: |
| well, I have OpenOffice on my computer, and there is an option to make the document a pdf document. Can you paste scanned picutres into a open office (download it for free) and then just use that function? |
That would be my choice until about 20 pages. After that you might be better off installing cygwin and running some kind of utility to put the pages together or use a Linux box. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Gatsby
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:13 am Post subject: |
|
|
Some scanners now come with a PDF option included in the software.
How did you wind up with JPEGs? Did you take a picture of the pages with a camera?
Clearly, a flatbed scanner would produce much better images.
The simplest way to make PDFs from any file is to use a PDF converter that emulates a printer. You just click print, select the converter, and it saves a PDF file on your drive.
Here's one:
http://www.download.com/PrimoPDF/3000-10743_4-10660924.html?tag=lst-0-4
There are some other ones at Download.com you might want to try. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:51 am Post subject: |
|
|
To answer the OP's original question I'm pretty sure Venom would win. Carnage had the novelty factor for a few months but Venom has all the antagonistic existential elements of being human. Venom is stronger I think but Carnage is a second rate copy of Venom IMHO.
Send me a copy of the fight if you work it out, I'm interested to see who wins. I'm not sure a fight of such a monumental nature can be resolved in a 4 page comic. Did you know Batman won against Superman? That's a total sales cop out. Even though I prefer Batman for long term value (and superman just for fun) I'm of such a mind to know that superman would kick batmans asss. Why don't you just photocopy the comic?
The following site has more information about good and evil:
http://www.immigration.go.kr/indeximmeng.html |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:47 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| tfunk wrote: |
To answer the OP's original question I'm pretty sure Venom would win. Carnage had the novelty factor for a few months but Venom has all the antagonistic existential elements of being human. Venom is stronger I think but Carnage is a second rate copy of Venom IMHO.
Send me a copy of the fight if you work it out, I'm interested to see who wins. I'm not sure a fight of such a monumental nature can be resolved in a 4 page comic. Did you know Batman won against Superman? That's a total sales cop out. Even though I prefer Batman for long term value (and superman just for fun) I'm of such a mind to know that superman would kick batmans asss. Why don't you just photocopy the comic?
The following site has more information about good and evil:
http://www.immigration.go.kr/indeximmeng.html |
It's not 4 pages. It's 4 comics, closer to 100+ pages. The crux of the story is that the symbiote line of Venom and therefore Carnage is continuing. Carnage's symbiote is supposed to produce an egg soon but the offspring would be the 1000th of the line which will supposedly make it very powerful and quite likely insane. It seems like an OK story with good artwork. Regretfully we'll be reproducing it in black and white for the kiddies.
... How did I get the comics?
I extracted them from CDisplay archives. They had already been scanned. I am currently using Photoshop to convert and resize all the JPGs. How I'll eventually merge them into a single paged volume remains a bit of mystery.
I could try Mumblebee's suggestion but will it work once I already have the files as PDFs? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
The King of Kwangju
Joined: 10 Feb 2003
Location: New York City
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:52 pm Post subject: |
|
|
In Photoshop, save your jpgs as .pdf's. Then in Acrobat, open #1 and choose "Add Page" etc.
Might be able to do a batch operation in Acrobat, you might want to ceck first. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
chaz47
Joined: 11 Sep 2003
|
| Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 8:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| The King of Kwangju wrote: |
In Photoshop, save your jpgs as .pdf's. Then in Acrobat, open #1 and choose "Add Page" etc.
Might be able to do a batch operation in Acrobat, you might want to ceck first. |
Unfortunately during my new install of Adobe CS Disk 1 I lost my old version of Acrobat. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
nobbyken
Joined: 07 Jun 2006
Location: Yongin ^^
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:37 am Post subject: |
|
|
| chaz47 wrote: |
| tfunk wrote: |
To answer the OP's original question I'm pretty sure Venom would win. Carnage had the novelty factor for a few months but Venom has all the antagonistic existential elements of being human. Venom is stronger I think but Carnage is a second rate copy of Venom IMHO.
Send me a copy of the fight if you work it out, I'm interested to see who wins. I'm not sure a fight of such a monumental nature can be resolved in a 4 page comic. Did you know Batman won against Superman? That's a total sales cop out. Even though I prefer Batman for long term value (and superman just for fun) I'm of such a mind to know that superman would kick batmans asss. Why don't you just photocopy the comic?
The following site has more information about good and evil:
http://www.immigration.go.kr/indeximmeng.html |
It's not 4 pages. It's 4 comics, closer to 100+ pages. The crux of the story is that the symbiote line of Venom and therefore Carnage is continuing. Carnage's symbiote is supposed to produce an egg soon but the offspring would be the 1000th of the line which will supposedly make it very powerful and quite likely insane. It seems like an OK story with good artwork. Regretfully we'll be reproducing it in black and white for the kiddies.
... How did I get the comics?
I extracted them from CDisplay archives. They had already been scanned. I am currently using Photoshop to convert and resize all the JPGs. How I'll eventually merge them into a single paged volume remains a bit of mystery.
I could try Mumblebee's suggestion but will it work once I already have the files as PDFs? |
cygwin or Linux |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
dogshed
Joined: 28 Apr 2006
|
| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2007 2:18 pm Post subject: |
|
|
For windows install cygwin and select the ImageMagick package during
the installation.
http://www.linux.com/articles/113978
Playing with PDFs
Now imagine you're traveling, and you want to share some photos with your friends. Your mail client may allow large attachments, but how many attachments do you really want to send? The convert utility lets you to put all your images into one neatly organized PDF file, one image per page, with a command such as:
convert *jpg allinone.pdf |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
xenok
Joined: 03 Mar 2007
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Register
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
Log in
