How do you create a PDF by copying a page in an HP printer/copier?

[RobertPatrick]

Brent wrote in news: [e-mail]:

Open up Adobe Acrobat. File - then you'll see Scanner and just follow what it says.

[RobertPatrick]

LM wrote in news:hl5fs7$of7$ [e-mail]:

Some of them are printers that also scan.

[Bob F]

Plonk!

[Peter]

Brent, what you are missing is the concept that there is no real difference between scanning an image and saving the scan as a .pdf file and scanning the image, saving it as a .jpg or .png, or .tif file, and then "printing" that file (converting it) to a .pdf file. The .jpg (etc.) file merely functions as an intermediate step in the process for you. I've been using sourceforge's open source PDF Creator for years and it works like a charm.

[Bob F]

You need to install the HP drivers.

[Bob F]

The HP drivers/software.

[Brent]

OK. I didn't realize (mea culpa) that the HP drivers were the missing link.

I figured whatever driver was running the fax/printer/copier was good enough for the scanner part of the printer.

I guess not :(

I'll see if I can somehow dig up the drivers (where is that long lost cd)?

[krw]

HP drivers suck, but at least they have all of them online.

[Brent]

I have Acrobat Pro but not on the computer that has the HP 3200m printer connected to the serial port.

The computer that is connected to the printer has Foxit Reader (freeware) only.

And Foxit won't recognize the scanner. I'm still looking for the HP software. I was hoping to find it on the web but the links at the HP site require some kind of activex which firefox doesn't do it seems.

[Phisherman]

Adobe Distiller might do what you want. I tossed out my printer over

10 years ago and now print to PDF files instead. I emptied a file cabinet and scanned the papers I might need, and now the file cabinet is gone too.

[HeyBub]

Well, there's your problem. The 3200 doesn't connect via serial port.

I'm at a loss to understand how you managed it.

Unless you cut off the grounding plug or something.

[Van Chocstraw]

Take a look here:

[hrhofmann]

Are you trying to scan/convert a text document to text and then convert to pdf, or do you want to go directly from whatever is scanned to pdf???

[Mike]

duh,

Now f*ck off.

[The Daring Dufas]

Perhaps he was refering to USB, Universal Serial Buss?

TDD

[norminn]

It is pretty easy to find drivers on HP website - need model name and number. Did your printer EVER have the capability to save documents in PDF format? I have a Cannon scanner and the driver allows saving but not editing in PDF format.

[Don Schmidt]

Will this work for you?

Load Scanner

File Programs HP HP Solution Center Select Scanner Scan Document Scan to: Save to file Scan Accept No

Name file and from Save as type: PDF

Don Vancouver, USA

[Mark Lloyd]

Are you sure Foxit is supposed to work with scanners? I don't see such an option either in Foxit menus or their website. Where did you find it?

[HeyBub]

I think he was refering to Frosted Flakes.

[David H. Lipman]

| David, | I don't understand the TWAIN part. I tried all the suggested programs but | none could find the printer.

| Which side do I need the TWAIN software?

| On the PC side where I run the application to talk to the printer?

Brent:

All scanners have two seperate but merging softwares that allow them to be used by a computer.

1. Hardware drivers.
2. TWAIN GUI middleware.

Once a given scanner has its hardware drivers installed, the Operating System knows how to communucate with the hardware.

Once the TWAIN GUI middleware is installed any program that is TWAIN complaint will be able to use the scanner.

For example I have a Canon colour flatbed and a HP 100 laser scanner attachment.

Now the Cannon has both #1 and #2 in two separate installers and connects via USB v2.0. It shows up in Device Manager under "Imaging Devices" (WinXP).

The HP Lasetjet 1100 has an attachment that plugs in the front of the laser printer. The Laserprinter connects to PC via parallel port. However in my case, it is connected to an external HP JetDirect print server. Here #1 and #2 is included into one installer for its own application, "Laserjet Document Assiastant" and it runs in the background and you tell it if the Printer+Scanner is connected via parallel port or over then LAN.

Take a program like XnView. It is a TWAIN compliant graphics application. Thus

*any* TWAIN complaint scanner who had their software installed correctly (Part #1 and #2) then one can choose which is the default scanner. (Note the OS can only define one device as "default scanner" at a time and thus once set, that chosen scann will the dafault for ALL TWAIN compliant software under that OS).

One the default scanner is chosen you can actually initiate a scan and hold the object in memory. Now its dependent upon what TWAIN compliant application does as its objective. If it is XnView its is considered a graphic and thus you can now save it in any of the standard formats like; .JPG, .PNG, .TIFF, .DCX., .PVX, etc.... Add PDFCreator from SourceForge into the picture and you can now create a PDF from the scanned object.

Lets use another scnerio: Lets us say you have Open Office (OO). OO is TWAIN comliant and can natively create PDFs. Thus many of the modules will be able to scan into its respective Office application such as its Word Processor and from there perform the scan and subsequently create a PDF.

No matter what application that one uses when you have chosen the deafult scanner, you will use that particular scanner's TWAIN GUI interface. It will allow you resize, scan portion, allow colour/B&W/Grey Scale and indicate at what Dot Per Inch (DPI) level.

So to sum it all up, the TWAIN is a standard for any TWAIN compliant application to use and TWAIN compliant scanner. The TWAIN GUI is the middlware provided by the scanner manufacturer and provides an interface to the device. With it you tell the scanner what to sca, how to scan and in what format. Once scanned it is delivered to the requesting application. That requesting application (through its TWAIN compliance) then can use the scanned image for whatever pupose it needs.