bobpeers -> blog » Photoshop http://blog.bobpeers.com Better late than never Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:34:48 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Linux Out of Box Experience http://blog.bobpeers.com/2009/10/15/linux-out-of-box-experience/ http://blog.bobpeers.com/2009/10/15/linux-out-of-box-experience/#comments Thu, 15 Oct 2009 07:42:07 +0000 Bob Peers http://blog.bobpeers.com/2009/10/15/linux-out-of-box-experience/ I 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.

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