Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Turning old documents into PDF files

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Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 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?

Posted by Adam Martin (Member # 641) on 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.

Posted by Andrew McCrea (Member # 674) on 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.

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 12-29-2006, 07:51 PM:

Open Office exports to a PDF so just scan them into the wordprocessor and then export

Posted by Adam Wilbert (Member # 1184) on 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.