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Yan, I am curious what kind of image files you mean that contain east Asian characters, surely an image has no characters in it but just pixels? Or do you mean the filenames? This: http://www.swftools.org/about.html Is the best thing since sliced bread for me. Among other things it can convert images to SWF. In making the front-end to our academic repository I was looking for a nice way to display the thousands of PDFs. The service at http://scribd.com/ seemed like just the ticket, you could think of it like a 'Youtube of documents'. There were some concerns in out group that authors might not like us publishing 'their' content somewhere else. To use the scribd service you also have to upload your documents to their servers and it is then hosted there. So even though all our content is Open Access, their might be a subtle distinction raising the ire of some users. I then later stumbled across SWFTools (the link above) and discovered that it was actually one of the core technologies powering Scribd. My plan is now to publish the repository assets as Flash SWF files in our repository for easy viewing, all still within our own control. If anyone on this list have ever made some pretty SWF viewers for SWFTools, or would like to collaborate on some Actionscript hacking to make a simple next/prev/zoom one that looks a little better than the default one, please let me know. Etienne Posthumus TU Delft Library - Digital Product Development t: +31 (0) 15 27 81 949 m: [log in to unmask] skype: eposthumus Twitter: epoz http://www.library.tudelft.nl/ Prometheusplein 1, 2628 ZC, Delft, Netherlands -----Original Message----- From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Han, Yan Sent: woensdag 4 februari 2009 00:52 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [CODE4LIB] Linux tools for making PDFs Hello, Do you know a tool running under Linux to make PDFs from images? I use Adobe Acrobat professional in Windows to create PDFs from image files. However, Acrobat does not handle image files with east Asian characters. Yan