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Author Topic: Turning old documents into PDF files Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-29-2006 04:50 PM                        I have some old product literature and I'd like to turn it into PDF files like Brad has done with the old manuals. I have Photoshop and a scanner. How can I do this?  |  IP: Logged Adam Martin I'm not even gonna point out the irony. Posts: 3686 From: Dallas, TX Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-29-2006 05:03 PM                     Adobe Acrobat is the original PDF software, but there are some generic versions out there now. You may also check to see if your scanner's software has an option to export the scan to a .pdf file instead of sending it to Photoshop.  |  IP: Logged Andrew McCrea Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 645 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Registered: Nov 2000 posted 12-29-2006 06:35 PM                        Well, I do have Primo PDF too, which allows printing a file into a PDF format. The only issue is that these brochures are a few pages, and if I make one image a PDF, then it will only be that one image or page in then PDF file.  |  IP: Logged Gordon McLeod Film God Posts: 9532 From: Toronto Ontario Canada Registered: Jun 99 posted 12-29-2006 07:51 PM                     Open Office exports to a PDF so just scan them into the wordprocessor and then export  |  IP: Logged Adam Wilbert Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 590 From: Bellingham, WA, USA Registered: Mar 2002 posted 12-30-2006 12:18 PM                        you can use photoshop, just scan as a 2 bit bitmap or tiff file (black or white only, no greyscale) and save-as pdf. If you don't have a way of compiling them into one pdf file, feel free to e.mail them to me and I'll put them together for you.  |  IP: Logged

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