Glenn Linderman on wrote...
| On approximately 8/17/2006 7:51 AM, came the following characters from
| the keyboard of Steve Tucknott:
| > Using ImageMagick on MS Windows
| >
| > What is the best/easiest way to re-combine a series of single page tiffs
| > back into a multi-page tiff?
| > Am I right in assuming I can simply use:
| >
| > convert page1.tiff page2.tiff -append multiPage.tiff
| >
| > I tried this with simple tiffs and it seemed ok - bit for a 12 page tiff
| > it disappeared away for ages and I eventually killed it off. Would it be
| > more sensible to do:
| >
| > convert page1.tiff page2.tiff -append multiPage.tiff
| > convert page3.tiff multiPage.tiff -append mutiPage.tiff
| >
| > etc rather than trying to build all the pages in one go?
| >
| The performance of ImageMagick in dealing with building multi-page TIFF
| files beyond a few pages is abysmal, mostly due to RAM resource consumption.
|
| Use IrfanView, it permits extremely rapid joining of TIFFs into
| multipage TIFFs with a command like (should all be on one line, of
| course). Gotta list all the TIFF files separately, unfortunately, the
| first is the result. The example I give shows combining a large number
| of 2-page TIFFs into one many-page TIFF.
|
IrfanView probably build it on disk piece by piece, that is not the IM
way.
It is always better to use a tool specifically designed to handle a
special format than one designed to handle all formats.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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