chemrox - 17-12-2010 at 14:02
I need to be able to gather documents, spreadsheets, graphs, photographs and illustrations into a single file that I can email to the end reader as a
signed report. I am able to do this with a scanner but it makes n o sense to print when no one needs hard copy. I am confident that others here are
way ahead of me on this and my question would be what software should I be using assuming we're going to stay within a windows platform or a linux
system? Thanks for any and all information related to this.
not_important - 17-12-2010 at 15:31
OpenOffice Writer, even though it has various problems and issues, will let you put together a document containing images and whatnot. You can ship
the document itself, OO is available for *NIX, Win, & Mac, or export it as a PDF file while retaining the editable format for your own use.
crazedguy - 17-12-2010 at 16:47
Use Microsoft word would be the easiest word files can be opened by the linux or you could use open office on linux.
not_important - 17-12-2010 at 18:30
Should not that newer MSWord versions are not always fully successfully read and displayed by non-MS programs, OO while more limited is fully
cross-platform compatible. OO is free as well, while MSOffice is $ which can be considerable for non-(students, NPO, and similar).
smuv - 18-12-2010 at 08:50
Just print to pdf and combine the pdfs (using adobe acrobat, or other pdf writer) or print to image (TIFF or postscript) and combine the images to
make a pdf (again using pdf writer).
chemrox - 21-12-2010 at 11:18
I think this last one is the way we'll go. Thanks all for your replies.