[Coco] List of copied manuals ready to be scanned

[Dean Leiber]

On Apr 12, 2008, at 4:23 AM, Fedor Steeman wrote:

> With regards to the newsletter (Info CoCoNut):  In Europe at least,  
> A5 is a
> pretty normal size. The newsletter was printed on a stack of A4 sheets
> folded over the middle. So I would only have to remove the  
> staples , fold
> the stack out and put it on my document feeder. The resulting scan  
> would
> have to be rotated, copied twice, where I would crop one version to  
> the left
> and the other to the right. The resulting two files would have to be
> interleaved, which is the most labour-intensive, especially since  
> Acrobat
> strangely enough does not support this. Tips anyone?

Fedor,

My, aren't you a treasure trove of CoCo material!  Wow! have a  
suggestion depending on how you scan. Previously when I used Omnipage  
to scan documents, I would use distiller to print them. So, for  
instance, if one page were on the top half or a sheet and another on  
the bottom half , I would 'print' with a custom page size  
representing the top half of the sheet (which would automatically  
crop the bottom half.) Then I would do a 'bulk' rotate of all the  
pages to do the other half. In acrobat, you can rotate all the pages  
at once to get them in the same orientation. That would solve your  
scan twice and rotate problems.

Interleaving is another matter. One thought would be extract the  
individual pages, use a renaming utility to rename them in the proper  
order and then import them back in acrobat which would put them in  
the correct page order. Just a thought, but it all depends on your  
workflow.

A scriptable Graphics program could also do your crop and rotate  
functions for you.

Dean