In message of 23 Jun, Dr Peter Young <pnyoung@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 23 Jun 2008 Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > [snip] > > > A totally alternative strategy might be to use another program to > > assemble all the images to join them together into one PDF file. But I > > have yet to find a program that does this as easily as OPro - and I have > > tried Easiwriter. Any suggestions, anyone? > > > No idea if this would work, but perhaps worth a try? Use a program > like WebGallery to make a web-page of the images, and "print" this > using PrintPDF? Yes, I was wondering earlier today if some other iterative program would do the business. I had a good look at Labella and WebGallery. Labella will only accept Draw types of files, which is a bit laborious, and WebGallery did not seem to have a facility to pump out A4 size images, whatever the size of the incoming picture. WebGallery only accepts JPEGs and GIFs for input at the moment and I'm not sure this will do what I want. I even gave it a few moments thought that I could write a program to load images and output a series of pages in some sort of file. It did not take long to realise that this would be complicated. But I wonder if screen background display programs, such as BDRand by Nick Roberts, might have some of the core technology? In fact I have now completed the latest assembly via OPro. The laborious step was converting all the input to Sprites. Then I loaded each sprite in turn into OPro which auto-enlarges or constricts the images to nicely fit inside the chosen frame. Nearly all the images were loaded by Reference leading to an OPro file size of 668K, even though the 70 images totalled some 34.6M. The resulting PDF file was a mere 6.7M; this compares will with the total of 7.7M of the source Tiff files. Using sprites, the OPro file is completely stable and shows none of the problems I found when using Tiffs or Gifs - and reported earlier today. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@xxxxxxxxx For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling