Re: [stella] Questions..

["Joe Rolecci" <njbl00dline@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well, I am just wondering that if scanning in the pages into a .jpg or .gif is the right way to do things. Maybe someone else knows this, so I can scan them in now, return the books, and then make PDF later.

I can get access to a full PDF program from my friends work to use.

>From: Mark De Smet

>Reply-To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx

>To: stella@xxxxxxxxxxx

>Subject: Re: [stella] Questions..

>Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 19:53:48 -0500 (CDT)

>

>

> > Now onto the Atari questions... first, I got both books Machine Language

> > For Beginners and The Second Book Of Machine Language by Richard Mansfield.

> > I have the first book about half scanned into my machine.. how do I import

> > them into Adobe Acrobat or should I be scanning through Acrobat?! I have

> > never made a PDF before.

>

>I don't know the full answer to your question, but I can add a bit of

>info. First, you need the correct version of adobe software. The

>standard acrobat reader can only read files, not create. This is how

>adobe makes it's money: read free, creator very expensive. I don't have

>access to the full acrobat creator(I don't recall it's name), but I do

>have access to adobe distillor, which can create pdf's from postscript

>files. If you can get it to postscript, I can convert for you.(BTW, you

>can create postscript by setting up a postscript printer on your computer,

>and printing in it's format, and printing to file.)

>

>

>Mark

>

>If someone knows that distillor can do more, please let me know, I only

>have used it on command line(unix) to create pdf from postscript.

>

>

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