OT: image2pdf

[Brian K. White]

On 1/11/2011 9:55 AM, Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I need to convert all kinds of image files ( tiff and pcx ) to pdf format
> that are sitting in my unix server, is there some program that will do any
> image to pdf from the command line ? I have tiff2pdf but not the pcx2pdf,
> or should I do first a pcx2tiff and then tiff2pdf ?

ImageMagick, and/or it's supposedly more efficient fork GraphicsMagick

Ypu will need ghostscript installed also as IM (or GM) uses it to read 
and write postscript and pdf.

Command line is potentially very easy, if you are ok with the default 
results, or you might need to get fancy if you need to adjust the 
results. But, for starters a very dead simple command works:

# convert input.any output.pdf

ImageMagic, GraphicsMagick, Ghostscript all free open source.

If the server is SCO Unix then gs is available in several different 
packages from sco, osr507mp5 includes a version as part of the cups 
system but I think it can be installed separately if you drill down into 
the package list in custom.
And an old-ish version of ImageMagic is available at 
http://www.aljex.com/bkw/sco/#ImageMagick and I think JPR has a newer 
build on his ftp site.

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bkw