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ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

Posts: 272

Print few images on on page

I have to print ~50 images, but I want save paper/ink as much as possible.
So here comes question how I can print 4 or 8 images on one A4 page?

skottish

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From: Here

Registered: 2006-06-16

Posts: 7,942

Re: Print few images on on page

Something like this plug-in for GIMP may work (assuming the Scheme code works with current versions of GIMP):

http://iglo.svoboda.biz/

OpenOffice will allow you to drag and drop images into tables, and resize the images to fit. I don't know how good their resize engine is.

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Edit. The GIMP script is hosed. If you know a lot about Scheme, I'm sure it's "fixable". If you know a lot about Python, then you can truly fix it.

Last edited by skottish (2007-11-24 21:12:55)

IceHand

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 53

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Re: Print few images on on page

You could use tiff2pdf to put the images in one PDF file and then use Evince's page setup to print more than one page per side.
Example (imagemagick and libtiff must be installed):

for i in *.png ; do     #This step is only needed when the images
  if [ -f "$i" ]             #are in png format, you would need to do the same with jpg's ...
  then
    convert +compress "$i" "`basename "$i" .png`.tif"
  fi
done

tiffcp *.tif "Images.tif"
tiff2pdf -z "Images.tif" -o "Images.pdf"
rm "Images.tif"