no one has any suggestions, perhaps IM isn't the correct tool to try to do this? I'd really appreciate any suggesitons!
Thanks! Chris On Thursday 25 May 2006 13:58, Chris wrote: > Hi, > > I've been sucessfully using a simple bash script to convert scanned images > of documents to pdf files: > > #! /bin/bash > echo Enter Input and Output File names \(*.bmp output.pdf\) > read INPUT OUTPUT > /usr/bin/convert $INPUT -quality 80 $OUTPUT > > For a smaller number of images, it works relatively quickly. With a larger > number of images it seems to create a 114Mb file for each image to be added > in /tmp. If I make sure there is enough room on the partition for (I use a > symbolic link) it works for relatively large numbers of images, say up to > at least 50. For large jobs of over 100 images for example, it creates the > files in /tmp, but fails at some point when it tries to write the pdf. > > Besides it failing, another problem is that the compter is almost unusable > when convert is running. Does anyone have a suggestion of how to > recursively add each new image to the pdf? I haven't been able to do it, > using convert to joint two pdfs results in an unreasonably large file and > also seems slow. > > Thanks for any suggestions, > > Chris -- C. Hurschler _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
