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Merging images/PDF to create a new wholesome PDF file

#pdf #imagemagick #poppler

I came across that I have to fix a lot of images, and sometimes multiple of PDF files each has only one page.

Tools here are in Ubuntu Linux; in Windows, it should be accessible via WSL; not sure about macOS.

sudo apt install imagemagick poppler-utils
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Then you now have two important commands - convert and pdfunite.

Now, I have another important problem - ImageMagick security policy 'PDF' blocking conversion

Though, my solution is

sudo nano /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
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To issue commands, for some reasons, convert supports wildcards, but not pdfunite.

convert "$FOLDER_NAME/*.GIF" "$FOLDER_NAME.pdf"
pdfunite x/x1.pdf x/x2.pdf x/x3.pdf x.pdf
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Lastly, this post is possible because of

code ~/.zsh_history
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