I faced this challenge yesterday: I had to upload a few documents somewhere: I had a few scanned images (JPG) with me, but the site accepts only PDFs, and it has a limit on the number of documents that can be uploaded.
Though I have Adobe Acrobat Reader on my m/c just like anyone else, I never used the writer - never bought it, never had it in office or university or anywhere else. Suddenly, I remembered that I had created few PDFs recently, all were via "Export PDF" feature from Oracle Open Office, which happens to be free. Most of these cases, the original document was a .doc etc.
But, I did not know that OOO can open JPGs. What the heck! Just tried opening one and bingo! It opened up nicely as a "Drawing" document. Figured out the rest of the process in few minutes.
Opened all JPGs there: each a "Drawing" document with a single slide with the image. Then created a new document and added n slides there. Copy-pasted the images from the documents opened beforehand to the slides of the new document. Just had to use "Export to PDF" feature from the multi-slide document - that's it - my PDFs were ready.
Simple solution to a common problem that I often face.
Though I have Adobe Acrobat Reader on my m/c just like anyone else, I never used the writer - never bought it, never had it in office or university or anywhere else. Suddenly, I remembered that I had created few PDFs recently, all were via "Export PDF" feature from Oracle Open Office, which happens to be free. Most of these cases, the original document was a .doc etc.
But, I did not know that OOO can open JPGs. What the heck! Just tried opening one and bingo! It opened up nicely as a "Drawing" document. Figured out the rest of the process in few minutes.
Opened all JPGs there: each a "Drawing" document with a single slide with the image. Then created a new document and added n slides there. Copy-pasted the images from the documents opened beforehand to the slides of the new document. Just had to use "Export to PDF" feature from the multi-slide document - that's it - my PDFs were ready.
Simple solution to a common problem that I often face.
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