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What is the easiest way to make a PDF from photos.
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You already have all the tools you need. Just use Preview and Export it as PDF.
hmm. it's that easy? so all I need is select all the pics, double-click it and export?
EDIT: This is simply false. All you get is 60 PDFs, not one.
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Just open a photo in Preview and click Export in the File menu. And select PDF as the format.
If you want to save multiple pics in a single PDF file, I believe you can do this by opening the first image and then dragging the rest of them to the thumbnail sidebar on the left. Then export the whole "project" as PDF. I saw some tutorials for this after googling it some time ago, but I think this is basically it.
Just open a photo in Preview and click Export in the File menu. And select PDF as the format.
If you want to save multiple pics in a single PDF file, I believe you can do this by opening the first image and then dragging the rest of them to the thumbnail sidebar on the left. Then export the whole "project" as PDF. I saw some tutorials for this after googling it some time ago, but I think this is basically it.
How to show sidebar? Shift-Command-D doesn't work.
Nevermind. I got it.
Just open a photo in Preview and click Export in the File menu. And select PDF as the format.
If you want to save multiple pics in a single PDF file, I believe you can do this by opening the first image and then dragging the rest of them to the thumbnail sidebar on the left. Then export the whole "project" as PDF. I saw some tutorials for this after googling it some time ago, but I think this is basically it.
I can't get this to work either.
OP: sorry i can't help.
Great. I've been toying around with Preview to find a solution for you and it kept exporting the images separately. I must be dumb too. Thanks for letting us know it worked with the Print option. I'll try to remember that.
Great. I've been toying around with Preview to find a solution for you and it kept exporting the images separately. I must be dumb too. Thanks for letting us know it worked with the Print option. I'll try to remember that.
But beware you will get the border. You need to set a page to Color Book and set it to the exact size of your photos, and check it to Fill Entire Paper with no border. A lot of pain but at least it works.
whewww..
I think I'm really dumb. I put all the photos in the sidebar and save yet the PDF is still one page (first picture).
EDIT: Got it working now by Print/Save to PDF. Not the easiest by any mean but..
Great. I've been toying around with Preview to find a solution for you and it kept exporting the images separately. I must be dumb too. Thanks for letting us know it worked with the Print option. I'll try to remember that.
You are almost there, and there is an easier way.
1) Export all the photos as PDFs (as you've done already).
2) Open One PDF in Preview, open the sidebar, and select the one image in the sidebar.
3) In the Finder window, select all of the other PDFs.
4) Drag these PDFs over to the single selected PDF in the sidebar, and drop on top. You may need to fiddle a bit because the Finder is assuming you want to place the pile either below or above the single PDF image, but once you've got the cursor placed on top just let go.
5) That's it.... you're done.
Good idea. If you don't have document feeder a regular scanner and Vuescan also works. Vuescan has an auto-repeat function. You set the time delay, and it will scan and repeat every X seconds. You just need to remove the original and place the next one in that window. Vuescan can also be set to create a single PDF from all the combined scans.
So basically you have to convert all the photos to PDFs first? I'll test this method tomorrow.
Also, check out Automator. I'm pretty sure it's pretty easy to create a workflow that takes all the images in a folder and convert them to PDFs. It may be possible to even create a single multi-paged PDF from them, but my Automator skills don't extend that far.
It really depends on how often you want to do this operation.
in ML, this isn't working. When you close the PDF is still the first file you open. Looks like Print/Save to PDF is the only way.
No you don't have to convert all your photos to PDFs first. Here are step-by-step instructions.
1. Select all the images you want in the PDF with Finder.
2. Right click and choose Open With Preview.
3. Your images should all appear in the Preview sidebar. Re-order if needed.
4. Choose Edit>Select All.
5. Choose File>Print...
6. In the print window, click the PDF button on lower left and choose Save as PDF...
Yup, That's what I do. One caution for everyone though, you need to set the page exactly as the photo or there will be borders.
Frankly, I hoped for a suggestion like this when I started the thread. Will try your method and report back.
I did it but I couldn't find where the PDF file is stored. I'm not even sure if it's created at all.
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3. choose pdfs ->New pdf from images where in first column library.I did it but I couldn't find where the PDF file is stored. I'm not even sure if it's created at all.
double click New pdf from images ,and you will see a new action.
like this
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sorry for my mistake.
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Got it. Not at all, I'm just too newbie for this I guess. This is the easiest method out there.
