[ale] Converting GIFs to PDF

[Vikram Nanda]

Thanks Geoffrey.

The convert command works great. I am still in the process of
optimizing/sharpening/deblurring my PDFs with all the options.

I happened to come across another tool which uses imagemagick to convert
images to pdf - it is called PDFKreator
(http://www.kraus.tk/projects/pdfkreator/).

It uses a 3 step process gif to tif then tif to ps and then ps to pdf -
here is the output :

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Starting PDF creation:
converting files to TIF:
convert p002.gif p002.gif.tif
Please wait...
Starting concat
Creating output Postscript
tiff2ps -2 -c -i 0 -p -x -y -z p002.gif.tif -O output.ps
Please wait...
starting tiff2ps now
Postscript file created
ps2pdf output.ps output.pdf
Please wait...
PDF file created
Cleaning up temporary file...
Finished: PDF created
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The drawback with the current version is that the advances options don't
work.

For now I am satisfied with the command line as it provides me more
options and flexibility.

Thanks,
Vikram

Geoffrey wrote:
> Vikram Nanda wrote:
>   
>> I have a bunch of GIF images which I need to convert to PDF format and
>> zoom them to 1.5 times on the command line..
>>
>> I tried converting the gifs to ttf format and then pdf - the image
>> shrunk to 1/4th of its size. I would appreciate If I could get some
>> directions on doing this.
>>     
>
> You can do this with convert from imagemagick.  I don't know why you got 
> a reduced size.  You might have to resize it first, then convert to pdf. 
>   I'm pretty sure that either way you go, you'll lose sharpness in the 
> image because it will have to interpolate pixels when it grows the image.
>
>   
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