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That worked VERY WELL THANK YOU! As well as much faster while NOT eating my computer. Next question, where/how should I have looked to find the "-limits area 0" option and know that it would solve the problem? From the -h help, it doesn't give the slightest impression that it would affect the ...

Second follow up ... giving up on 220 pages for now ... started another 1300 documents processing ... smooth sailing ... no documents greater than 100 pages (tifs) in this set ... watched a 77 page document process to completion ... memory usage held just shy of 7gB while writing the pdf ... not ...

Follow up ... using the static version it got a bit farther before dying ... still getting memory allocation errors ... watching memory use in Task Manager showed a 'committed' of just over 18gB, Max used about 6.5 gB, working memory (two flavors) grew to about 450mB, varied from about 420-450 a few ...

ImageMagick 6.7.0 Q16 Dynamic on Win7 64bit with 8gB memory ...combining 220 tifs (ave size 50k) into a single pdf file (expected size 11mB). Currently trying to run with the "static" version. It reads all 220 files, then opens the pdf file ... starts to write and gets 'memory allocation' errors ...