Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

fmw42 wrote: ↑2018-06-21T14:39:22-07:00 I would suggest you search Google for jpg to pdf converters. See for example, https://en.softonic.com/downloads/jpg-to-pdf-converter

Sending people to hell openly is better, for it saves time.

It doesn't take a shortcut from input to output, but always decompresses then re-compresses, and this is often lossy: it changes pixels. Then it’s definitely strange, that the original image, that was compressed with quality 60, loses quality less, than an edited image, which was saved with quality ...

I think the question is: "I have JPEG files. I want to put them inside PDF wrappers, guaranteeing the JPEG doesn't change. Is that possible with ImageMagick?" I’m sorry, but that’s wrong. I wanted to find the best way to make a PDF from a bunch of JPEGs, so that the quality was preserved at maximum. ...

After reading all that, I am not sure what the ImageMagick bug actually is. Can you describe it in a short sentence? https://i.imgur.com/YOPXqFy.png When a tool doesn’t produce expected result, it is either a bug, or it lacks documentation. I’ve taken five pages from that book, with pictures and wit ...

I wanted to find the best way to make a PDF from a bunch of JPEGs, so that the quality was preserved at maximum. The JPEGs are scans of a book, JPEGs are only 1200 px height and have quality 60, so ideally I’d want them to be taken to PDF untouched. Since there may be some metadata manipulation in t ...