ImagePDF Software

In this article, I will show you how to convert image to PDF file and add annotation for PDF files totally free. If you have Adobe Acrobat installed, you can do the conversion from image file to PDF on board with the annotation process. However, Adobe Acrobat is very expensive, if you do not use it daily, owning one copy will be a little waste. Here I will show you a way at lowest cost, hoping it can deliver you a high quality service.

First, download ImagePDF Image to PDF Converter to your PC. This software is command line version, please unzip it and check the elements in the software package.

Secondly, open MS Dos Windows and call img2pdf.exe in it. Check its usage in the readme.text and follow example in it.

• “Question here, could you please tell me how many image formats does this software support?”
• --Support TIF, TIFF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, GIF, PCD, PSD, TGA, BMP, DCX, PIC, EMF, WMF, etc. image formats

            Example:img2pdf.exe C:\*.tif C:\*.pdf

This software support wild characters when do batch conversion, which means that by this commands all the tif file in some folder can be converted to PDF file in one batch.

• “Question again, may I add watermarks for the output PDF file?”
• Yes, by this software you can add various watermarks. You can control watermark types, colors, position and others.

  Example: img2pdf.exe -wtext "ImagePDF" -wf "Arial" -walign 3 -wh 20 -wbox "0,770,612,792" "C:\in.tif" C:\out.pdf

        -wbox <string> : a rectangle to output formatted text, it is only useful for "-walign" option, eg:
        -wbox "0,0,595,842"
        -wbox "0,0,612,792"
        -walign <int> : set text align

Let us check the watermark effect from the following snapshot of output PDF file.

 
         Fig 1 Output PDF file from Image and add watermarks.

Up to here, the conversion from image to PDF has been finished. Now let us check how to add annotations for it. Have you heard of VeryPDF Online Tools? The free annotation tool is on its website. If not, please visit its homepage first, here is the link for you, http://online.verypdf.com/annotator.

When visit its website, you will find the usage of this online annotations tool is so easy. All you need to do is uploading PDF file then you can add annotations freely. During the using ImagePDF software, if you meet any malfunctions, please leave us comment then we will reply you at the first time.

    Reading news in nowadays is being part of our life, when meet something interesting or important, we will take notes of it. Copy&paste is normal but outdate way, when in short of time, some quick-and dirty way is needed, like snapshot  the news. Then you can insert the snapshot in some PDF file pertaining to this news. Once saving the news to PDF file, no matter for long time preservation or printing, PDF or PDF/A is the best choice. Sound terrific, right? In the following part, I will show you how to make it.

  First, please download totally free software Shareshot which get many votes of confidences from users. I know it from my friend. When you download it to your PC, there will be an icon of pencil on the desktop, double click it then you can launch it.  The following snapshot of Shareshot setting menu can tell you what this software can do for you. By this software, you can edit snapshot in image editor then save it locally or upload it directly online.

  Second, download ImagePDF Image to PDF Converter to your PC. This software is not free but you can use it tens of times free during trail version. This software is command line version so you need to download it then unzip it to some folder.

Third, open MS Dos Windows and call img2pdf.exe. Follow the examples in readme.text file.

             Example: C:\in.jpg C:\out.pdf

If you need to insert the snapshot to some existed PDF file. please use the following commands:

          -append 1: insert before first page if PDF file exists
          -append 2: append to last page if PDF file exists

        Example:img2pdf.exe -append 2 -width 612 -height 792 C:\*.tif C:\out.pdf

This software also supports wild characters when do the batch conversion.

It seems that conversion is a little bit longer, actually if you master this way, you can finish the conversion in a few seconds. Maybe you have a little doubt about its functions, now let us check its conversion effect from the following snapshots.

The following is the snapshot of CNN news and edit it in the Shareshot Image editor.

               Fig 1. Edit CNN snapshot in the Shareshot Image editor

The following is the snapshot of above image file.

Through comparation from the above snapshot, you can deduce that those software is not perfunctory. If you like it, why now install it in your PC now. If you have any question, please leave a comment here, we will reply you at the first time.