ImageMagick
I'd scanned 16 pages of a mortgage application form using xsane and I wanted to whack them all together in a single pdf. Googling revealed a consensus that the solution involved using ImageMagick.
Lazily I just tried sudo apt-get install imagemagick, which did something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe provided some sort of infrastructure for imagemagick, if the description of the packages I checked on synaptic later are anything to go by. Anyway, I fucked about a bit and ended up compiling it and I was missing dependencies which I eventually got from following this advice:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagick++-dev
And suddenly the starting instructions I was following worked:
[EDIT] The files needed leading numbers in the name to order properly in the folder. I tried to use a for loop to rename each in turn ( for v in mortgage{1..16}*.png; do mv $v {01..16}$v; done or whatever ) so I ended up just using the GUI. :( deafeat.
Lazily I just tried sudo apt-get install imagemagick, which did something, but I'm not sure what. Maybe provided some sort of infrastructure for imagemagick, if the description of the packages I checked on synaptic later are anything to go by. Anyway, I fucked about a bit and ended up compiling it and I was missing dependencies which I eventually got from following this advice:
sudo apt-get install imagemagick libmagick++-dev
And suddenly the starting instructions I was following worked:
convert mortgage*.png mortgage_application.pdf[EDIT] The files needed leading numbers in the name to order properly in the folder. I tried to use a for loop to rename each in turn ( for v in mortgage{1..16}*.png; do mv $v {01..16}$v; done or whatever ) so I ended up just using the GUI. :( deafeat.
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