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I've seen a lot of posts about how to convert a multi-page PDF to PNG but I'm wondering how I can go in the opposite direction if I have the size of each page I want made.

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Print the PNG files to PDF. By default, the PDF pages will all be the same size but you can crop them down once it is created.

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  • I think he may be looking for a series of commands.
    – Shane Di Dona
    Nov 19, 2014 at 1:35
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    @ShaneDiDona Ideally yes, that's what I'm looking for.
    – Pierce
    Nov 19, 2014 at 2:19
  • @ShaneDiDona: why a 'series of commands' if a simple one is all you need? :-)
    – Kurt Pfeifle
    Dec 16, 2014 at 16:02
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Assuming you have PNG files page1.png, page2.png,... page9.png and you want to create a 9-page PDF from these input PNGs.

The following simple ImageMagick command does create this PDF:

 convert page*.png 9page.pdf

If you want to re-sort the pages, just list all the PNGs in the order you want:

convert     \
  page8.png \
  page7.png \
  page6.png \
  page9.png \
  page1.png \
  page2.png \
  page3.png \
  page4.png \
  page5.png \
  9page.pdf
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  • Strange doing that, I get the number of pages, but only the first pages shows anything ;( ➜ 2018-11-29 convert --version Version: ImageMagick 7.0.8-14 Q16 x86_64 2018-10-25 imagemagick.org Copyright: © 1999-2018 ImageMagick Studio LLC License: imagemagick.org/script/license.php Features: Cipher DPC HDRI Modules Delegates (built-in): bzlib freetype jng jp2 jpeg lcms ltdl lzma png tiff webp xml zlib
    – Hvisage
    Nov 29, 2018 at 12:46

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