I've had to do this with directories full of TIFFs a few times over the
years and finally wrote a script. I found that working with ImageMagick
alone really taxed the machine (may it's pulling all of the images into
memory or something?) and so it was more efficient to make a PDF of each
page and then use pdftk to string the PDFs together at the end.
https://gist.github.com/jpstroop/2956093
I'm not saying I'm proud of this, but it works, and could easily be
modified to work with JPEGs.
-Jon
On 11/08/2013 02:09 PM, Ethan Gruber wrote:
I've done something like this in imagemagick, and it worked quite well, so
I can vouch for this workflow. But just to clarify, I presume you will be
creating static PDF files to place in the filesystem--not generate a PDF
dynamically through Omeka when a user clicks to download a PDF (as in,
Omeka files off an imagemagick process).
Ethan
On Nov 8, 2013 2:00 PM, "Kyle Banerjee" <[email protected]> wrote:
We are in the process of migrating our digital collections from CONTENTdm
to Omeka and are trying to figure out what to do about the compound objects
-- the vast majority of which are digitized books.
The source files are actually hi res tiffs but since ginormous objects
broken into hundreds of pieces (each of which can be well over 100MB in
size) aren't exactly friendly to use, we'd like to stitch them into
individual pdf's that can be viewed more conveniently
My game plan is to simply have a script pull the files down as jpegs which
can be fed to imagemagick which can theoretically do everything I need.
However, I've never actually done anything like this before, so I wanted to
see if there's a method that people have used for combining lots of images
into pdfs that works particularly well. Thanks,
kyle
