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I am trying to make a layered PDF. When i convert i can only find options to make multiple pages or a single page with no layers.

please help!

As far as I know, IM does not create layered PDFs at this time, other than as multi-pages. Please note that when converting images to PDF, IM will put raster data into a vector PDF shell. Likewise when convert vector data to PDF, IM will rasterize the data and then enclose it in a vector shell.

Did you mean PSD or actually PDF?

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#vector

Post to the developers forum and see what they say about layered PDF. Do you have documentation for the PDF layered file format?

PDF, it needs to work on many computers with minimal effort and costs PSD does not offer this (needing Photoshop). It will be used in classes also and Photoshop and the like have a lot of clutter. I may break down and use Gimp.

IM is basically a command line processor and has no formal GUI, unlike Acrobat, Photoshop and GIMP. How would you provide layers to IM to combine, if you could do it? Are they vector data or raster data?