OJC On Merging Image Files into PDF
 

 

Make sure your scanned images are in the range closed to 850 x 900 pixels across and 1100 x 1200 pixels down. If you are using a scanner, the best resolultion is 150dpi. If you are using a cellphone camera, adjust your photo size before you take snapshots. If you can't do this, reduce your pixel size afterwards with an image editing program on the computer. If the file size is too large, PDF-making process is harder to manage or even may fail. If the file size is too small, the quality of image may not be acceptable. If your image turns out to be sideways, you need to rotate it to an upright orientation. (See the Windows example below):

 

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If your copier/scanner has an option to save the scanned pages automatically as a single PDF file, use such an option. If the copier/scanner can only produce separate image files, you need to combine them into a single PDF before uploading it to T-Square. In order to create a single PDF from multiple image files, embed all of your images into a MS-Word document and print it as a single PDF file.

 

merging PDFs

If you are using Windows and don't have a PDF option in your print menu, you need to download a free software like PDFcreator. Mac OS always has a PDF print option.

  1. It is your responsibility to make sure your uploaded files are correct, legible, in the right order, not upside down and in the correct homework collection folder. If you upload wrong files or upload them into a wrong location or if your scanned images are not legible or missing part of the pages, etc., you may not receive whole credit for your homework. NO excuse like "I did my homework but uploaded a wrong file" or "My file was corrupted during upload" will be accepted. You can resubmit the homework up to twice if necessary before the deadline. If there are multiple submissions, only the latest one will be graded.

  2. To confirm if a homework file has been uploaded correctly, download it (Use "Save the link as" option), reopen it and confirm it appears correctly. If you do this, you can detect if something went wrong during your upload. If your instructor cannot view the files correctly, you won't receive credit for the homework.

  3. After your homework is graded, it will be returned to the same location within the Assignments Tool with the name like "xxxxx-graded.pdf" or "xxxx-reviewed.pdf", etc.