converting to pdf all gifs

[Tapas Mishra]

2010/12/17 Franz Waldmüller <waldbauernbub at gmx.at>

>
> Am 2010-12-14 16:35, schrieb Smoot Carl-Mitchell:
> > On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 20:55 +0530, Tapas Mishra wrote:
> >> I am having 982 images which are in gif format.This is basically a
> >> document which is in form of gifs.
> >> I want to create one pdf all these 982 are numbered sequentially.So in
> >> the pdf I want them from gif1 to gif982 all in one pdf.
> >> I read some where imagemagick can do this.Or inserting image in
> >> openoffice and then saving as pdf as an option.
> >> But to insert  982 gifs it would be difficult.So is there an easy way
> >> to do so?
> >
> > ImageMagick can do it.  Something like:
> >
> > convert gif* out.pdf
> >
> > should do the trick.  You may have to fiddle with the input file naming
> > to get the sort order correct.
> >
> your gifs are numbered sequentially - perfect!
> install imagemagick and pdftk
> sudo apt-get install imagemagick pdftk
>
> copy the following into a text editor
>
> #!/bin/bash
> for file in *gif
> do
>        convert $file $file.pdf
> done
> pdftk *.pdf cat output finalpdf.pdf # merge all pdf files into one
> single pdf file.
>
> #############
>
> save the file as "convert.sh" into the folder where the gives which
> should be converted are stored. Make sure that in this folder contains
> only your gif files and the script which you just stored within.
>
> open up a terminal and paste the following commands (adjust them to your
> needs.
>
> cd /home/tapas/folder-with-gifs         # change your working directory
> chmod u+x convert.sh                    # make the script executable
> ./convert.sh                            # run the script
>
> I hope this helps
> Franz
>


> Thanks I was looking for this one only.
>
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