Yes, that's a way to do it. I've used pdftk after I generate the PDF using ImageMagick to mess with pagination. It's a good tool too. -Josh On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Steve Trapp <stevetrapp at comcast.net> wrote: > Josh, Mike, and alls-y'all-T.C.LUG-gers-following-this-thread- > > There are multiple ways of converting .png-files to .pdf-files. I end up > using *gimp* a lot for this. I'm sure other ways work just fine. > > However, when I'm done, I have one .pdf file for each .png file. > > To catenate the pages together into a single .pdf file, I use the tool > *pdftk* as follows: > > pdftk <file1>.pdf <file2>.pdf ... <fileN>.pdf cat output <output>.pdf > > Naturally, you can use wild cards if your .pdf-pages have a sequence to > them. Something like: > > pdftk <base>[0-9].pdf <base>[0-9][0-9].pdf <base>[0-9][0-9][0-9].pdf \ > cat output <output>.pdf > > The above is an extreme example for the case when you don't have LEADING > ZEROES. It's also a bad idea if you REALLY have more than a 100 files > because there's a limit (usually, anyway) to the number of characters in a > command line (historically, I believe, it was 4096). > > Hope this helps, > -Steve > > P.S.- Sometimes things end up with a page type of A4 instead of letterSize > (a problem in the US and Canada), or end up as letterSize instead of A4 (a > problem outside of {.us, .ca}). One of {A4, letter} is longer, and the > other is wider. The differences in {length, width} are, I believe, less > than 1_inch (2.54_cm). > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013 12:30:31 -0600, > Michael Moore <stuporglue at gmail.com> wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Josh More wrote: > > > > > > You need to do it in two steps: > > >> > > >> convert *.png test.mng > > >> convert test.mng test.pdf > > >> > > >> This is how I did my security comic book. The only gotcha is to check > > >> the page order with an "ls *.png" first. I had to preface each file > > >> with the pagenumber (00 - 24) to get them in the right order. > > >> > > > > > I ended up getting the same results with both > > > > convert output/*.png output.pdf > > as with the two-step process. > > > > > > > I'm not 100% sure that it would work for you, but here's a trick I > > > sometimes use in this kind of situation (in Bash): > > > > > > convert $(\ls -1v *.png) test.mng > > > > > > The backslash turns of aliasing (which might be adding color to the > > > text). The -v option uses "version" ordering of filenames. > > > > > > > I'll have to remember that for the future. I had already sorted and named > > my pages. > > > > In the end I was able to work around the imagemagick page size issue I > was > > having by doing an extra padding step to get all the images centered and > > the right size before converting to pdf. > > > > Thanks, > > Michael Moore > > -- > Name: Steve Trapp > Homepage: http://steventrapp.home.comcast.net > Email: stevetrapp **AT** comcast **DOT** net > Locale: en_US.UTF-8 | Location: Upper Midwest > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20131212/a9505b41/attachment.html>