Re[2]: Convert an image to a PDF
Re[2]: Convert an image to a PDF
- Subject: Re[2]: Convert an image to a PDF
- From: Leonid Bogdanov <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2011 22:04:55 +0400
Roger,
ImageMagick is a great suite, but I'd like to use something that is shipped preinstalled on Mac.
Best regard,
Leonid Bogdanov.
Fri, 27 May 2011 14:03:37 -0700 letter from Roger Howard <email@hidden>:
>
> On May 27, 2011, at 1:28 PM, Leonid Bogdanov wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > What is the best way of lossless conversion of an image (JPEG, PNG or BMP)
> to a PDF file from AppleScript?
> > I tried to call sips, but it compresses an image being processed, so small
> images have poor quality in resulting PDFs.
> > I tried to use cupsfilter, but it generates the resulting PDF in paper size
> (e.g. A4) and not of size equal to input image.
> >
> > I'll appreciate any suggestions of parameters for these tools to improve
> output or suggestions of another techniques.
>
> I believe SIPS/ImageEvents does recompress images - quite sure of it. I
> tackled this issue last year for merging multiple JPEGs into a single PDF
> without re-compression and the best/easiest tool I found for the job was
> ImageMagick's convert tool (which, I believe, uses Ghostscript behind the
> scenes). I have an AppleScript wrapper that accepts folders (full of JPEGs) as
> input, and outputs each folder as a PDF. It's just calling ImageMagick's
> "convert" tool from do shell script.
>
> Here's the simplest example of a convert command to do so:
>
> convert *.jpg output.pdf
>
> That will merge all files ending with .jpg in the current directory into a
> file named output.pdf.
>
> If you wanted to include specific files in the input (instead of using a
> wildcard) it'd be similar:
>
> convert /path/to/file1.jpg /path/to/file2.jpg /path/to/file3.jpg
> /path/to/output.pdf
>
> This will work similarly with PNG's and BMP's as well (they'll both be stored
> without any lossy compression) - in fact you should be able to combine JPEG
> and PNG and BMP inputs in the same output PDF.
>
> Not sure how comfy you are with command line tools and do shell script in
> general - if you need more info feel free to ask, or if you don't want to go
> this direction I understand. There is, I believe, a Mac installer for
> ImageMagic, and you can also get it through MacPorts ("port install
> ImageMagick" should do it).
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