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If you have Acrobat 7 on Windows, there's an easier way (if I understand
your question correctly). I don't know if this will answer you resolution
issue, though.
There's a nifty compile feature that you access from Windows Explorer.
Put all the files you want to compile into one directory.
Name them so that they're arranged in the order you want them to appear in
your file.
Select all the files.
Right click on the first file and select Combine in Adobe Acrobat.
The rest is sufficiently intuitive that you can take it from there.
Good luck,
Karen
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Subject: Introduction and PDF question
Aloha, ya'll,
I've been lurking for 6 or 7 weeks and thought I'd crawl out of the
wainscoting and ask a question. I headed the question below in caps in case
you want to skip my obligatory intro and cut to the chase.
First, a quick introduction. I've been writing for 25 years and have held
jobs in hi-tech from the days of punched cards (mainframe) and CPM (micros,
as they were called back then). However, I am using a layoff from a Product
Marketing position to transition into freelance technical writing.
I must send out a very large THANKS for all the valuable info that comes
across this list daily. I've been drinking at the fire hose for the last
month and while the volume can be daunting, the information is as varied as
it is useful. It's nice to hear multiple takes instead of the party line.
My next project is learning the tools. First up is FrameMaker. Once I can
produce a document there with the minimum level of pain, I'll look to the
group for recommendations of where to self-train next. (Was thinking
RoboHelp, but we'll cross that bridge later.)
I spent an hour in the archives today and found excellent suggestions in the
December file for learning Framemaker. Thanks again!
NOW FOR MY QUESTION:
To build up my portfolio, I have scanned several magazine articles at 1,200
dpi (selected after reading the timely discussion of graphics earlier this
month) and saved them as PDFs. Each page is a separate file. For my first
FrameMaker project I decided to combine the files for multi-page articles
into a single PDF. I fired up the software and searched the help and came up
with a solution.
1. Create a blank document
2. For each page, do a File | Import | File of the PDF pages 3. Save the
multi-page document as a PDF
It worked but the resolution of the new PDF is not near as good as the
original pages. IN addition, I noticed that the resolution looked the same
regardless of whether I chose Standard or High Quality Print. I also tried
this approach with similar results.
1. Create a document
2. Bring up a page in Acrobat Reader
3. Copy the page to the clipboard with the highlight tool 4. Paste the
clipboard to the FM document 5. Repeat for each page 6. Save the multi-page
document as a PDF
So, I'm open to suggestions on ways to combine multiple PDF files of scanned
articles into a single PDF file, with or without the use of FrameMaker.
Ideas?
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