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Not particularly a Windows 8 question, but ...
A friend scanned a document and it displays sideways. I can rotate it in any of a number of PDF readers I have (including Adobe) but none of them will save the rotated version. (Actually, she scanned it as four separate sideways pages and I want to merge them into a single document.) How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? Thanks. |
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On 3/12/15 6:54 PM, Alek wrote:
Not particularly a Windows 8 question, but ... A friend scanned a document and it displays sideways. I can rotate it in any of a number of PDF readers I have (including Adobe) but none of them will save the rotated version. (Actually, she scanned it as four separate sideways pages and I want to merge them into a single document.) Out of curiosity only, doesn't her scan software allow for rotation before scanning? Or even better, rotate the paper before the actual scan, assuming she used a review mode. How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? I cannot offer a Windows solution for this, but if you know someone who has a recent Mac, they can load all 4 pages at the same time into Preview (comes with OS X), rotate the pages, and then save them as a combined PDF doc for you. I honestly don't know of a similar Windows program. -- Ken Mac OS X 10.8.5 Firefox 33.1 Thunderbird 31.0 "My brain is like lightning, a quick flash and it's gone!" |
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On 3/12/2015 8:54 PM, Alek wrote:
Not particularly a Windows 8 question, but ... A friend scanned a document and it displays sideways. I can rotate it in any of a number of PDF readers I have (including Adobe) but none of them will save the rotated version. (Actually, she scanned it as four separate sideways pages and I want to merge them into a single document.) How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? Thanks. Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download The current version is 2.0. Personally I prefer the previous version 1.7.3. Both can be downloaded from the above page. I have been using PDFCreator for many years, and got use to the old interface. Since you are starting fresh you may wish to start with 2.0. With PDFCreator you can rotate the images, and combine several images into one document. If the images are a standard image format jpg, or over two dozen other formats, You may also like to try Irfanview. It is also free at http://www.irfanview.com/ This is more of an image processing program that writes to PDF files. If you do not have a good image processing program with OCR and some other good things you may wish to look at it also. It is also free. |
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Alek wrote:
Not particularly a Windows 8 question, but ... A friend scanned a document and it displays sideways. I can rotate it in any of a number of PDF readers I have (including Adobe) but none of them will save the rotated version. (Actually, she scanned it as four separate sideways pages and I want to merge them into a single document.) How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? Thanks. The Adobe Acrobat program which comes with Adobe Distiller, has the option to rotate pages. Mine is a really old copy. http://i57.tinypic.com/2uihqah.gif Likely many have come after it that can do the same thing. Doing vector editing and preserving text fonts, lines and other junk, that's a lot harder to get right for PDF. Maybe Adobe Illustrator ? There's certainly a few half-hearted attempts at editors out there. ******* To solve your very specific problem, install a copy of GIMP. The reason this will work, is the document is actually four pages of bitmaps, and GIMP is the perfect solution for making a different document from the original pile of bitmaps. http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ 1) In GIMP, you can open a PDF file. It will ask you which pages to render. Select only one page from the PDF. Set the resolution high enough to preserve the content properly. If the image documents were output at 300DPI, select 600DPI (Nyquist). Make sure the computer has lots of memory. 2) Repeat three more times. Now you have the four pages, as separate images, and without invoking "Layers" or needing layer operations. 3) Do File:New, make a document which is big enough. Copy and paste the four images, to the large new window. You can move the Copy/Paste bitmap with the cursor keys. Hold down Shift, then use a cursor key, to move the image in "larger steps". 4) GIMP has File:SaveAs, which delivers a GIMP specific format. Instead, you want File:Export, to create a "foreign" format. That might not be the end of the story, depending on your printing capabilities. I might use File:Print and then select a Print-To-File type of printer driver. For example, there are various printer plugins for making PDF directly, and you could access one of those from GIMP, to create the final bitmap-inside-PDF output. You would need to go into Page Setup, to define the paper size of the final output. And lots of tools "bungle" such settings, which causes the PDF to not open at the right scale when you go to share the document. But, that's life... Making huge bitmaps, will cause some grinding on the computer opening the new PDF document. Stuff kept in vector format, is more efficient, but using an optical scanner can't help with that. And OCR is too primitive to be of any real help. Paul |
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Rotate them, print them, and scan them back in again to a single document.
Job done, and will be faster than posting here and awaiting a technological solution! JK On 13/03/2015 15:29, Paul wrote: Alek wrote: Not particularly a Windows 8 question, but ... A friend scanned a document and it displays sideways. I can rotate it in any of a number of PDF readers I have (including Adobe) but none of them will save the rotated version. (Actually, she scanned it as four separate sideways pages and I want to merge them into a single document.) How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? Thanks. The Adobe Acrobat program which comes with Adobe Distiller, has the option to rotate pages. Mine is a really old copy. http://i57.tinypic.com/2uihqah.gif Likely many have come after it that can do the same thing. Doing vector editing and preserving text fonts, lines and other junk, that's a lot harder to get right for PDF. Maybe Adobe Illustrator ? There's certainly a few half-hearted attempts at editors out there. ******* To solve your very specific problem, install a copy of GIMP. The reason this will work, is the document is actually four pages of bitmaps, and GIMP is the perfect solution for making a different document from the original pile of bitmaps. http://www.gimp.org/downloads/ 1) In GIMP, you can open a PDF file. It will ask you which pages to render. Select only one page from the PDF. Set the resolution high enough to preserve the content properly. If the image documents were output at 300DPI, select 600DPI (Nyquist). Make sure the computer has lots of memory. 2) Repeat three more times. Now you have the four pages, as separate images, and without invoking "Layers" or needing layer operations. 3) Do File:New, make a document which is big enough. Copy and paste the four images, to the large new window. You can move the Copy/Paste bitmap with the cursor keys. Hold down Shift, then use a cursor key, to move the image in "larger steps". 4) GIMP has File:SaveAs, which delivers a GIMP specific format. Instead, you want File:Export, to create a "foreign" format. That might not be the end of the story, depending on your printing capabilities. I might use File:Print and then select a Print-To-File type of printer driver. For example, there are various printer plugins for making PDF directly, and you could access one of those from GIMP, to create the final bitmap-inside-PDF output. You would need to go into Page Setup, to define the paper size of the final output. And lots of tools "bungle" such settings, which causes the PDF to not open at the right scale when you go to share the document. But, that's life... Making huge bitmaps, will cause some grinding on the computer opening the new PDF document. Stuff kept in vector format, is more efficient, but using an optical scanner can't help with that. And OCR is too primitive to be of any real help. Paul |
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Alek wrote:
Not particularly a Windows 8 question, but ... A friend scanned a document and it displays sideways. I can rotate it in any of a number of PDF readers I have (including Adobe) but none of them will save the rotated version. (Actually, she scanned it as four separate sideways pages and I want to merge them into a single document.) How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? Thanks. Print to pdf with PDFCreator or other PDF print-to. Set output for portrait mode if in landscape mode and rotated counterclockwise (or clockwise depending on how she rotated them). Then use www.pdfmerge.com or Irfan multipage image / create multipage pdf. |
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Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/12/2015 9:29 PM:
Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download The current version is 2.0. Personally I prefer the previous version 1.7.3. Both can be downloaded from the above page. I have been using PDFCreator for many years, and got use to the old interface. Since you are starting fresh you may wish to start with 2.0. With PDFCreator you can rotate the images, and combine several images into one document. Are you thinking of PDF Architect, a companion program? What do you mean by "images"? I have 5 PDF files. Thanks. |
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On 3/13/2015 10:49 AM, Alek wrote:
Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/12/2015 9:29 PM: Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download The current version is 2.0. Personally I prefer the previous version 1.7.3. Both can be downloaded from the above page. I have been using PDFCreator for many years, and got use to the old interface. Since you are starting fresh you may wish to start with 2.0. With PDFCreator you can rotate the images, and combine several images into one document. Are you thinking of PDF Architect, a companion program? What do you mean by "images"? I have 5 PDF files. Thanks. I do not use PDF Architect. I used images and PDF files interchangeably. Open one of the PDF files, and print it to the PDFCreator printer. Go to the PDFCreator window and you can drop other PDF files into the window that shows what has been printed. You can then highlight and combine the files (CNTRL C I believe) In Irfanview, Click Options, Multipage images, Create PDF. This opens a window with several options on the right. Select add images, and add the PDF files that you want in the new PDF File. Select the new file name and new directory and create images. As I said I tried PDFCreator 2.0X and went back to PDFCreater 1.7X. 1.7x is similar in operation to Irfanview. First print the PDF file to the PDF printer, then add the other PDF files in to PDFCreator window. Highlight the files and the CNTRL C. when the combine operation is complete, save the new file by the name and place of your choice. |
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Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/13/2015 12:37 PM:
On 3/13/2015 10:49 AM, Alek wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/12/2015 9:29 PM: Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download The current version is 2.0. Personally I prefer the previous version 1.7.3. Both can be downloaded from the above page. I have been using PDFCreator for many years, and got use to the old interface. Since you are starting fresh you may wish to start with 2.0. With PDFCreator you can rotate the images, and combine several images into one document. Are you thinking of PDF Architect, a companion program? What do you mean by "images"? I have 5 PDF files. Thanks. I do not use PDF Architect. I used images and PDF files interchangeably. Open one of the PDF files, and print it to the PDFCreator printer. Go to the PDFCreator window and you can drop other PDF files into the window that shows what has been printed. You can then highlight and combine the files (CNTRL C I believe) In Irfanview, Click Options, Multipage images, Create PDF. This opens a window with several options on the right. Select add images, and add the PDF files that you want in the new PDF File. Select the new file name and new directory and create images. As I said I tried PDFCreator 2.0X and went back to PDFCreater 1.7X. 1.7x is similar in operation to Irfanview. First print the PDF file to the PDF printer, then add the other PDF files in to PDFCreator window. Highlight the files and the CNTRL C. when the combine operation is complete, save the new file by the name and place of your choice. Well, after printing to PDF Creator, nothing happened. The PDF Creator log file says, 015-03-13 14:44:06.0847 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.App.TryStartApplication: There was an error while starting the application: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\Alek\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool \E1A71AD3922A4F94B275B6D320F600CF.inf' is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access) at pdfforge.DataStorage.Storage.IniStorage.ReadData(S tring path, Boolean clear) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Core.Jobs.JobInfo.ReadInf(Stri ng infFile, TitleReplacer titleReplacer) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.JobInfoQueue.Add(String jobInfo) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.App.TryStartApplication(Comman dLineParser commandlineParser, String newJob) |
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On 3/13/2015 2:46 PM, Alek wrote:
tem.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\Alek\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool \E1A71AD3922A4F94B275B6D320F600CF.inf' is denied. That would in my opinion indicate that when you installed and when you used it there was different set of permissions, Administator and user?? |
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Alek wrote:
Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/13/2015 12:37 PM: On 3/13/2015 10:49 AM, Alek wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/12/2015 9:29 PM: Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download The current version is 2.0. Personally I prefer the previous version 1.7.3. Both can be downloaded from the above page. I have been using PDFCreator for many years, and got use to the old interface. Since you are starting fresh you may wish to start with 2.0. With PDFCreator you can rotate the images, and combine several images into one document. Are you thinking of PDF Architect, a companion program? What do you mean by "images"? I have 5 PDF files. Thanks. I do not use PDF Architect. I used images and PDF files interchangeably. Open one of the PDF files, and print it to the PDFCreator printer. Go to the PDFCreator window and you can drop other PDF files into the window that shows what has been printed. You can then highlight and combine the files (CNTRL C I believe) In Irfanview, Click Options, Multipage images, Create PDF. This opens a window with several options on the right. Select add images, and add the PDF files that you want in the new PDF File. Select the new file name and new directory and create images. As I said I tried PDFCreator 2.0X and went back to PDFCreater 1.7X. 1.7x is similar in operation to Irfanview. First print the PDF file to the PDF printer, then add the other PDF files in to PDFCreator window. Highlight the files and the CNTRL C. when the combine operation is complete, save the new file by the name and place of your choice. Well, after printing to PDF Creator, nothing happened. The PDF Creator log file says, 015-03-13 14:44:06.0847 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.App.TryStartApplication: There was an error while starting the application: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\Alek\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool \E1A71AD3922A4F94B275B6D320F600CF.inf' is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access) at pdfforge.DataStorage.Storage.IniStorage.ReadData(S tring path, Boolean clear) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Core.Jobs.JobInfo.ReadInf(Stri ng infFile, TitleReplacer titleReplacer) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.JobInfoQueue.Add(String jobInfo) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.App.TryStartApplication(Comman dLineParser commandlineParser, String newJob) Yah, I agree with Keith. You don't have permission to install on that computer. |
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Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/13/2015 4:53 PM:
On 3/13/2015 2:46 PM, Alek wrote: tem.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\Alek\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool \E1A71AD3922A4F94B275B6D320F600CF.inf' is denied. That would in my opinion indicate that when you installed and when you used it there was different set of permissions, Administator and user?? No. Installed as user with administrator permissions. |
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Paul in Houston TX wrote on 3/13/2015 5:11 PM:
Alek wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/13/2015 12:37 PM: On 3/13/2015 10:49 AM, Alek wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/12/2015 9:29 PM: Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator/download The current version is 2.0. Personally I prefer the previous version 1.7.3. Both can be downloaded from the above page. I have been using PDFCreator for many years, and got use to the old interface. Since you are starting fresh you may wish to start with 2.0. With PDFCreator you can rotate the images, and combine several images into one document. Are you thinking of PDF Architect, a companion program? What do you mean by "images"? I have 5 PDF files. Thanks. I do not use PDF Architect. I used images and PDF files interchangeably. Open one of the PDF files, and print it to the PDFCreator printer. Go to the PDFCreator window and you can drop other PDF files into the window that shows what has been printed. You can then highlight and combine the files (CNTRL C I believe) In Irfanview, Click Options, Multipage images, Create PDF. This opens a window with several options on the right. Select add images, and add the PDF files that you want in the new PDF File. Select the new file name and new directory and create images. As I said I tried PDFCreator 2.0X and went back to PDFCreater 1.7X. 1.7x is similar in operation to Irfanview. First print the PDF file to the PDF printer, then add the other PDF files in to PDFCreator window. Highlight the files and the CNTRL C. when the combine operation is complete, save the new file by the name and place of your choice. Well, after printing to PDF Creator, nothing happened. The PDF Creator log file says, 015-03-13 14:44:06.0847 [Error] pdfforge.PDFCreator.App.TryStartApplication: There was an error while starting the application: System.UnauthorizedAccessException: Access to the path 'C:\Users\Alek\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool \E1A71AD3922A4F94B275B6D320F600CF.inf' is denied. at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath) at System.IO.FileStream.Init(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, Int32 rights, Boolean useRights, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, SECURITY_ATTRIBUTES secAttrs, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy, Boolean useLongPath, Boolean checkHost) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options, String msgPath, Boolean bFromProxy) at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access) at pdfforge.DataStorage.Storage.IniStorage.ReadData(S tring path, Boolean clear) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.Core.Jobs.JobInfo.ReadInf(Stri ng infFile, TitleReplacer titleReplacer) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.JobInfoQueue.Add(String jobInfo) at pdfforge.PDFCreator.App.TryStartApplication(Comman dLineParser commandlineParser, String newJob) Yah, I agree with Keith. You don't have permission to install on that computer. What? Can you explain then how I installed the program and the dozens of others? :-) |
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Alek wrote:
Paul in Houston TX wrote on 3/13/2015 5:11 PM: Alek wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/13/2015 12:37 PM: On 3/13/2015 10:49 AM, Alek wrote: Keith Nuttle wrote on 3/12/2015 9:29 PM: Probably the best free software for what you want to do is PDFCreator by Sourceforge. Yah, I agree with Keith. You don't have permission to install on that computer. What? Can you explain then how I installed the program and the dozens of others? :-) I don't know. Maybe the temp path was not created, wiped after creation, or the inf file is not right. The inf file has a temporary name: "C:\Users\Alek\AppData\Local\Temp\PDFCreator\Spool \E1A71AD3922A4F94B275B6D320F600CF.inf' is denied." |
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On Thu, 12 Mar 2015 20:54:17 -0400, Alek wrote:
How do I get the new orientation to stick? Is there a (free) PDF reader or editor that will do this? Is your mail id in the headers a working one? I sent you a message on this software. -- Archer |
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