Hi Abel, Thanks for your advice.
abel deuring wrote: > - snip - > > I think that there is no free software based out-of-the-box solution > available. But you can combine a number of useful free software > packages > to get the job done: Sane for image aquisition; and tools like > ImageMagick, the pnmtools or similar for image format conversion. > Ghostscript can produce PDF files, provided that you have Postscript > data available -- and there is more than one way to write Postscript > files from "pixel images". Other members of this mailing list have > already mentioned them. Could you please advise what is the name of the LINK - "to write Postscript files from "pixel images" which you mentioned? > You can "glue" these programs with shell scripts, written for bash, > csh > or the Korn shell. Alternatively, yxou can use a more advanced > scripting > languages like Perl, Python or Ruby to get the job done. Python has > even > its own "pixel image manipulation" package, called PIL. (The other > languages may have similar tools, but I am not aware of any.) The problem is I am not a programmer having no experience to glue them together. Could you please give me some hint/guide to start. > Have a look at Gift (GNU Image-Finding Tool): > http://www.gnu.org/software/gift/gift.html It's in a quite early > development stage though. Noted with thanks - snip - > alternatively you might try Zope (http://www.zope.org) and one of its > additional products for photo galleries. (But I should mention that > Zope is quite complex beast...) I just subscribe Zope and will try to find out more information there. B.Regards Stephen
