Chris on wrote...
| no one has any suggestions, perhaps IM isn't the correct tool to try to do
| this? I'd really appreciate any suggesitons!
|
It is probably more that no one that has does this likes to share that
knowledge.
If you know about PDF generation using IM, contribute to the lsit and
thus to IM Examples...
| > 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
|
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