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I have a folder full of jpg files. When I use the following command,
convert *.jpg assembly.pdf
I get a pdf file with one image per page of the pdf. I would like to put 9 images on each page. Is there a way to do this with convert or mogrify?
Alternatively, I'd like to combine 9 of the jpg images into one jpg image so that I can convert that into a PDF.
Thanks,
z.
You're looking for montage from ImageMagick :
NAME
montage - create a composite image by combining several sepa‐
rate images. The images are tiled on the composite image
optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more.
If you already have convert then you almost certainly also have montage. To get a grid of 3x3 images per page on your pdf try this:
montage *.jpg -tile 3x3 assembly.pdf
This assumes your images all have roughly the same size. Have a read through the documentation for more complex options.
montage *.jpg -tile 3x3 -geometry 1000 assembly.pdf to get 9 high quality images per page. We tried it on a sample of 30 images or so, and it worked like a charm! Then we tried to run the full 400 images and... my computer started chirping and seizing, and it consumed 95% of the ram. Eventually we got the message "killed" in the terminal... probably we'll have to run this in batches! :) Anyway, thanks man! I'm going to read the docs in detail, because imagemagick seems like supreme command-line sorcery.
– Ziggy
Mar 11 '13 at 5:42
