combining image files into a pdf

[Peter Langfelder]

On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 3:14 PM, David Timms <dtimms at iinet.net.au> wrote:
> Hi, I have image files of type:
> - png
> - tif  (b/w) - fax like
> - jpg
> that were produced by my scanner, during scan of a document.
>
> I've tried a few ways to achieve this, with limited results:
> - gscan2pdf: all png pages have a strong purple tint.
> - tiff2pdf: works for the tiff files
> - pdfedit: needs a pdf to start with, so not much help
> - pdf chain: uses pdftk to do manipulations; generates 0 byte pdf, output
> dialog seems to hang.
> - oopresentation/draw: doesn't like the tif files.
> and a few attempts with command line tools.
>
> I haven't found a way to (easily) combine those into a pdf. I would like to
> know if Fedora has such software already packaged, or another linux app that
> could perform this ?

I'm not aware of any single application to do this, but you can issue

convert image.tif image.png

to convert the tiff into a png, then use openoffice to import all the
pictures and convert to a pdf.

Peter