Re: Conversion JPG --> PDF (was :Memory Increase)

geo cherchetout <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Sep 2010 21:40:45 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On 09/25/2010 21:00, *[email protected]* wrote :

> It would be great if there would be a "preserve" option or alike. When 
> combining several JPEGs to a PDF, there really is no use in re-encoding 
> the JPEGs if you apply no modifications to them.

+1

I wrote the same thing on 10-24-2009...

> I checked with Adobe Acrobat and it does the trick of merging several 
> JPEGs to one PDF, with the extracted JPEGs being exactly identical to 
> their originals. There also seems to be other proprietary software that 
> does the trick of bulk-converting JPEGs to PDF, but no freeware tool.

You can use pdflatex, a true free software, but it is *a few* more 
complicated since it needs you to write a source text and then compile it.