Linux Out of Box Experience
October 15th, 2009I recently had a problem with a 2 page document scanned to pdf that was far too light to read, the black text had become light grey and the contrast was too low.
I searched how to fix this but everything suggested using Photoshop to edit each page, then save to pdf and finally using some extra program to stitch the 2 pdf files together.
At this point it was obviously going to be easier using Linux so I opened Virtualbox and started Fedora 11.
I imported the pdf pages into GIMP, edited them and saved as pdf, then I used Ghostscript to join the files using the following command:
gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=finished.pdf file1.pdf file2.pdf
I could have done all of this on Windows but not without searching and installing extra programs, in Fedora it was all just there
This is one of the reasons I love Linux, for me the out of box experience leaves Windows in the dust.