<html><head></head><body>I'm beginning to look at retirement. I'm on a top500 supercomputer project that the contract has another 8 years on. Not sure I have another 8 years I want to put in. Turning 60 in a few months and having much fun making enameled flowers and jewelry.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On June 20, 2022 1:45:20 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale@ale.org> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">Even more excellent news. Your "pdf join" comment got me searching and<br>very quickly finding on my system:<br><br> tiffcp Can concatenate single-page TIFF files into one TIFF file<br><br> tiff2pdf Will convert a TIFF file into a PDF file<br><br>Just what I need, though I haven't tried yet.<br><br>The docs I'm copying are my Piper Arrow's logbooks, going back to 1973,<br>before handing them to a mechanic for my Annual inspection in case he<br>loses them. I've been meaning to do this for 30 years. I have a little<br>more time now that I'm retired but still too much busyness. Yes, it's<br>possible for a programmer to retire.<br><br>Bob<br><br>On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:05:20PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">Excellent news!<br><br>I've not done much multi page scanning. Vague memory of doing something in xsane, picking a base name and a folder and doing pdf scan then a pdf join?<br>I think I loaded the scan feeder and kicked it off from xsane. <br><br>On June 20, 2022 11:37:09 AM EDT, Bob Toxen <transam@verysecurelinux.com> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;">Jim,<br><br>Thanks VERY MUCH for that link!<br><br>I discovered that I had installed older versions of that software years<br>ago but it didn't work.<br><br>Did RPM erase and then installed the latest version and then it still<br>would not work. It appeared to need a daemon running.<br><br>It would say "Connecting to PC" and then time out.<br><br>I think that, fumbling around, I started:<br><br> /opt/brother/scanner/brscan-skey/brscan-skey-exe<br><br>and then it worked like a champ ... other than creating a separate TIF<br>file for each page of 50-200 page docs.<br><br>ALE comes through again!<br><br>Thanks again,<br>Bob<br><br>On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 08:00:32PM -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><br></blockquote><a href="https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all">https://support.brother.com/g/b/downloadtop.aspx?c=us_ot&lang=en&prod=mfc7360n_all</a><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>On June 17, 2022 4:01:05 PM EDT, Bob Toxen via Ale <ale@ale.org><br></blockquote>wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">I want to get the scanner capability of a Brother<br></blockquote></blockquote>printer/scanner/Fax<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">device to work with one of my<br>older Linux systems.<br><br>Brother model MFC-7360N. (MFC means Multi Function Center) Has USB<br>jack<br><br>Linux systems (anyone will do):<br><br>CentOS release 6.10 (Final)<br><br>Slackware 14.2<br><br>Thanks so much for any ideas (and The Cobler's children have no<br></blockquote></blockquote>shoes,<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #8ae234; padding-left: 1ex;"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #fcaf3e; padding-left: 1ex;">to be fixed real soon now!)<br><br>Bob Toxen<br>transam@VerySecureLinux.com (ALE account)<br>bob@VerySecureLinux.com (individual account)<hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></blockquote><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool<br></blockquote><hr>Ale mailing list<br>Ale@ale.org<br><a href="https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale">https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale</a><br>See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at<br><a href="http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo">http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo</a><br></pre></blockquote></div><br>-- <br>Computers amplify human error<br>Super computers are really cool</body></html>