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I browse the Internet for beautiful and inspiring images and I am sure many people do the same. I usually have folders categorized with appropriate names where I can go and browse those images at a later stage. But, if you keep downloading images every day, you will reach a point where the numbers become unmanageable. Yes there are various tools to keep your Image folders well organized. But, then, there is a job of backing up your favorite images too. As the numbers grow, not only it becomes to difficult to organize, it takes it's toll on the speed of your PC. Too much defragmentation etc...
I usually, convert individual folders in to PDF files, so it reduces the number of files on the disk and I can add tags and key words to the PDF file and it helps me organize the images in nice booklets.
You can convert images to PDF collection without a commercial PDF tools or PDF printers installed on your system. You can accomplish this using Cygwin on windows PC.
You need:
ImageMagick provides a set of tools for image manipulation from the command line. One important and basic functionality of ImageMagick is its format conversion function. And Cygwin provides the Linux/Unix type environment under Windows.
Convert (convert.exe) is one of the few tools which comes with ImageMagick, and we can convert all the Images under a folder by calling:
convert *.jpg PDF_FileName.pdf
I have been able to open The generated PDF file using Adobe Reader without any problem. But, Sumatra PDF reader had problem, it crashed when I launched from the Windows Explorer. But when I opened the generated PDF by dropping in to Sumatra PDF Reader's window, it could render few of the pages, and then it crashed.
So, here is the warning/rider. I have not investigated the PDF file generated completely. It may not have the correct PDF document structure, Adobe Reader is able to handle without any problem. But, be careful if you are using any other PDF readers, before you delete your original images.
OK Here is a Quick Update on the converted PDF having problems with Sumatra PDF Reader:
I used the Cygwin tool pdf2dsc, an application which analyses the PDF file and produces a text file with description of the pages contained the PDF. I found that some of the pages had unrealistically large bounding box dimensions, which I believe has come from the EXIF data of the original images used with ImageMagick. Hence, the PDF viewer like Sumatra was unable to render such huge pages. Where as, Adobe Reader 9 was rendering such a page, as white page (without any Image).
At the end of this POST, I have pasted the pdf2dsc output, you can check it out. Few pages have those huge bounding box dimensions.
I could generate documents without hitting problems with Sumatra PDF reader too. Of course all of those JPG files were from my Nokia e90, and I am sure, the EXIF information was not screwed up as was the case when I tried generating the PDF file first time. It happened
That's all it is there to convert images files into PDF files. In case you want to convert the images to Individual PDF files or EPS or PS file format, then the following few lines of BASH script does that for you.
for I in *.jpg
do
convert $I $I.pdf
echo "Converted $I to $I.pdf"
done
Quote of the Day:
I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow.
--Thomas Woodrow Wilson
the output of pdf2dsc for the offending PDF file (offending to Sumatra PDF reader, that is)
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