Publishing a PDF with Quark and EPS files?
Posted Wednesday, February 10, 2010 by admin
I have a friend who wants me to create an ebook from her book that is no longer in print. All she has from that book is each individual page in the form of an EPS file. So that would mean adding each page (175 of them) as an image in Word, then saviing it as a PDF file that way, as far as I know. That’s not working, so now I’m exploring other options.
What I don’t understand is how on earth she has 175 EPS files. Why doesn’t she have a single document? I would ask her but she has no idea. Does this mean that the book was probably published in Quark? I don’t have that program, so I don’t even know what I’m talking about, really.
if it is just text, you should print it, then you scan it with a common OCR program. Some OCR program can scan TIFF images and other images also, so you may be able to do the trick without actually printing. The OCR usually saves the page as a RTF file that you can then use in Word or within a good ebook creation program such as
This seems to me the better way as if you save 175 images you will have a *very large* ebook, and a non-reflowable ebook (in a few words, a bad ebook