[Milsurplus] Question

[Kenneth G. Gordon]

On 11 Sep 2015 at 22:55, Jack Antonio wrote:

> I have a large number (370) of .rtf files (made in Wordpad) that
> I would like to turn into one .pdf. There are also a couple of
> pictures which are .jpgs that would be a part of the final package.

OK. No sweat.
 
> Is there good freeware or inexpensive software available
> to do this?

Yes. See previous e-mail.

> Some searches turned up some possibilities, but
> I would like to see if someone has some experience in this
> rather than waste a bunch of time experimenting.

Again, please see previous e-mail. 

But for a little more information, I do this regularly, and have done it for a 
number of years.

My main office computer is still using XP-Pro since I have seen no real 
advantage to move to yet another "new" MS operating system. In any case, it 
has been my experience as an IT Professional at the University of Idaho for 
30+ years, that it is not "wise" to switch to a "new" Microsoft operating 
system for at least a year after they first publish it in order to wait for the 
inevitable "updates" and "bug-fixes" which take place. FYI, Vista was a 
disaster, as is/was Win 8.

I have, recently, installed Win 10 on my shack computer, having taken 
advantage of the "free" upgrade from Win 7, but Win 10 is still in the "testing" 
phase as far as I'm concerned. In fact, I am "triple-booting" Win 10, XP-Pro, 
and a Unix clone, PC-BSD.

On our main family office computer I am still using MS-Office 2007, since, 
again I have seen no real advantage to upgrading.

To do what you want to do, I use MS-Word, first loading the .RTF file(s), then 
adding the .JPGs into the file where appropriate, by using Word's 
"Insert-Picture" function, then sizing those .JPGs properly by simply dragging 
the edges.

Then since I have installed the "add-in" which I mentioned earlier to 
MS-Word, I simply "Save-As" the entire file as a PDF. This has always 
worked flawlessly.

I use PDF995 for other purposes, mainly when working with other PDFs.

> I tried printing, and then scanning to .pdf, but the scanning
> software kept arbitrarily switching from portrait to landscape.

First, that is way too much work, and secondly, it sounds as though your 
scanning software is inappropriate for your uses. It should not, arbitrarily 
switch formats.

Good luck,

If I can help in any other way, please do not hesitate to ask.

Ken W7EKB