Hi all,
A question for those with experience of using the PDF routines in FreePascal. I have something like 150,000 page scans as JPEG images, taken from a CD-ROM collection of magazine back numbers. Unfortunately the viewer software with the images isn't compatible with my Linux box. I want to take the images and reconstitute the magazines as PDFs (the filenames are coded, that part's not difficult) and I have a choice of two ways to do it, either I run img2pdf on each file (Linux box, BTW) and then use Ghostscript to concatenate the individual PDFs, or I try to write something in FreePascal to do the job.
I have absolutely zero experience with using the PDF routines in FreePascal, but the output from img2pdf doesn't seem to be too great so far as the quality is concerned, the output looks better to me if I use OpenOffice, insert the JPEG and then generate the PDF, but obviously the time it would take to do them all manually is prohibitive.
Any comments on the viability of going the FreePascal route would be appreciated.
Thanks!