Abhandlungen der K öniglichen Akademie der Wissensch aften zu Berlin

[Christian Coseru]

Birgit Kellner wrote:

> I gather on a recent Mac OS, there should already be tools available in the operating system for the job.
> 
> I trust the real geeks on the list can provide further advice :-)


Thankfully, the real geeks at Apple have made it easy for those of us using Macs.

It's pretty simple on the Mac (at least if your running a recent OS, 10.5x or 10.6). Download all the JPEG files with the wget command as Birgit suggested.   

In Finder navigate to the directory where the image files are stored, then simply do a Select All (⌘ A) and Copy (⌘ A). 

Now open your Preview application and go to File > New from Clipboard (⌘ N) and voilà! All the image files have been added to an untitled document, which you now can save as a PDF file.

Best,
Christian


Christian Coseru, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
College of Charleston
66 George Street
Charleston, SC 29424

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Email: coseruc at cofc.edu

On Jan 12, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Birgit Kellner wrote:

> Jonathan Silk wrote:
>> I have a feeling I may be an idiot (well, I'm sure in other respects, but in
>> this case...): I learn from Indologica that we can find online the
>> *Abhandlungen
>> der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. *
>> 
>> When I go, however, for example to
>> http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/bibliothek-digital/digitalequellen/schriften/anzeige/index_html?band=07-abh/1844&seite:int=711,
>> I can only get one page at a time; is there not a way to download an entire
>> article?
>> 
>> Thanks for your advice!  Jonathan
>> 
>>  
> The interface unfortunately doesn't offer the possibility to download several pages at once (as a PDF, for instance), no.
> 
> There is a workaround, but it's a bit time-consuming:
> 
> 1.) Click on a page image with the desired size ("large", for instance). You see the JPG file and get a link like this in the browser's URL line:
> 
> http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/thumbnail?band=07-abh/1844&aufloesung:int=2&img=DAS_jpg/07-abh/1844/jpg-1000/00000002.jpg&seite:int=2
> 
> This means that the image file is stored in this directory:
> 
> http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/DAS_jpg/07-abh/1844/jpg-1000/
> 
> 2.) If you have the wonderful little tool wget installed, run
> 
> wget -r http://bibliothek.bbaw.de/DAS_jpg/07-abh/1844/jpg-1000/
> 
> from the command line.
> 
> This gets you all images for the volume in question to a local folder. You can then create a PDF file with these images (even run OCR on them before), with, for instance Adobe Acrobat Pro (on Windows); I gather on a recent Mac OS, there should already be tools available in the operating system for the job.
> 
> I trust the real geeks on the list can provide further advice :-)
> 
> Best,
> 
> b