[lug] pdf distiller?

Lynn Danielson lynn.danielson at clue.denver.co.us
Wed Sep 12 18:18:52 MDT 2001


Todd Ruskell wrote:
> 
> I am looking for an analog to Adobe's distiller under linux.
> Specifically, I have a series of bitmapped scanned images which I would
> like to compile into a single pdf file, one page for each image.
> Converting the imges into any format, even pdf, is (obviously) not a
> problem, but I don't know how to successfully merge them into a single
> file.  A quick "apropos pdf" and net search didn't appear overly
> fruitful.  Any ideas?

PDFlib <http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/> allows you to easily program what you
want.  It has APIs for C, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, and TCL among others.  


Lynn Danielson



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