On Fri, 15 May 2009 16:18:15 +0100 Chris Rodgers <christopher.rodg...@cardiov.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
| Hi, | | I tried asking this on the magick-users list, but no-one replied. So I | thought maybe it fitted the category "Usage questions which are too | arcane for the normal user list should also be posted here" and would be | suitable for this list... ;-) | | I have a set of scanned JBIG2 files that I would like to convert into a PDF. | | At the moment, I use | | "convert -units PixelsPerInch -density 600 rawname.jbig -rotate -90 | output.pdf" | | However, the PDF files that emerge from this seem to be much larger than | the original JBIG2 images. | | I know that PDF files can contain JBIG2 images. Is it possible to have | the raw JBIG2 files wrapped into a PDF by ImageMagick without internal | conversion to another bitmap format? | Their will always be a mapping though an internal raster image by IM. It is the nature of the beast. however the format within the PDF can be controlled using the -compression option. See http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#pdf and look down to the table titled: Postscript/PDF Output Options Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <a.thys...@griffith.edu.au> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anthony's Home is his Castle http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/ _______________________________________________ Magick-developers mailing list Magick-developers@imagemagick.org http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-developers
