Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Bingo! I needed to retain 100% quality (no compression) but I wasn't aware of the jpeg compression option! Altered to: convert -limit memory 0 -limit map 0 *.tif -compress jpeg -quality 100 out.pdf and the resulting file is now way smaller! v1: TIFF -> PDF = 2.1GB v2: TIFF -> zip compression -> PDF ...

I have a folder full of very large TIFF files (between 30MB and 350MB each) that need to be converted into a PDF file. I can easily use convert to create it, but the size becomes an issue very quickly. I can convert the TIFF files to JPEGs and convert them into a PDF and save 80% of the size which ...

I have a WIn7 dev server running with Apache 2.2.17 and PHP 5.3.5 and iMagick 5.3.2.0 and MySQL. PHP is loaded as an Apache module. I was using GD to thumbnail some images when I reached an impasse when trying to work with 60MB JPEG files - they expanded to 3.4GB and PHP just failed. iMagick however ...