[SeSawaya]

I'm trying to scan several pages of music for my students that I've written and make it all 1 PDF, instead of say 5 seperate pages of PDFs for 1 piece of music. Can this be done? (Free) or do I need to pay to do it? (buy acrobat) I usually just use Preview then save as a PDF.

Also, using iWork to make a brochure, is there a way to make the file smaller? It's like 10 megs and it's only 2 pages. I've downloaded image filled books of 50 pages that was only 5 megs.


thanks a million!

[Big Mac]

There is a simple application called Combine PDFs that should do what you need. I don't use Pages, so I can't help you with that question.

[OreoCookie]

In my experience, scanning each page by hand is pointless. I would recommend that you get a multifunction printer, more expensive models can scan to pdf directly. You just put in the pages into the adf, press start and be done with it.

What used to take an hour (scanning + editing + optimizing size) now takes under a minute (I practically scan notes every day).

[Chuckit]

Don't know anything free, but PStill is a lot cheaper than Acrobat.

[mindwaves]

Originally Posted by OreoCookie

In my experience, scanning each page by hand is pointless. I would recommend that you get a multifunction printer, more expensive models can scan to pdf directly. You just put in the pages into the adf, press start and be done with it.

What used to take an hour (scanning + editing + optimizing size) now takes under a minute (I practically scan notes every day).

What is the most inexpensive printer that would allow me to do that (mainly to scan to pdf directly with autofeed)?

[dimmer]

Scan them, import to pages, print the file to a PDF (technically not free, but as you already have iWork, it's not an additional outlay).

[SeSawaya]

Originally Posted by Big Mac

There is a simple application called Combine PDFs that should do what you need. I don't use Pages, so I can't help you with that question.

this worked like a charm!! thanks!

[OreoCookie]

I would guess it's Brother's DCP-7010 (without ADF, ~ 200 Euros in Germany) or Brother's DCP-7025 (which has an ADF and sells for roughly 264 Euros). I'm not sure how this translates to US prices, although they don't cost more than many inkjet-based multifunction printers. If you want to have a fax and invest a tad more, the MFC-7820N (~315 Euros) also has built-in ethernet, so you can scan to an ftp share or via e-mail. At work, I scan via e-mail (with a Kyocera FS-1118 MFP), just because I've been too lazy to convince the admin to create an ftp share just for that purpose

To be honest, I haven't used either of these models, but I have been looking at them for my parents to replace their HP inkjet (pos) mfp.

[sebrady]

I think you can import the 5 scanned images into any application that will take it, even text edit, then go to print, but, instead of printing, go to the bottom of the print window and just make a pdf, Mac OS X will let you do this. I hope this helps.