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I thought your problem was running out of memory. Images being processed in memory aren't compressed. You need space for all of the input pixels, and for the output pixels. Compression only happens when they are written to file. EDIT: That's the general rule. Perhaps IM optimises memory usage more ...

I really know little about large file processing, but see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#massive and http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resources.php#environment. You might change your tmp directory to somewhere else that has more allowed space. I've tried the -limit flag already, but all ...

snibgo wrote:Don't forget you need the same amount again: a load of memory for the input files, and the same again for the output file.

So, the output file should only be about ~40-50 MB compressed based on our experience with other slightly smaller batches, so I'd expect that to be a neglible amount of space.

Hi everyone, I'm hoping for some collective wisdom here on a problem I'm having with ImageMagick (6.5.7-0 , Q16) and creation of large multi-page TIFF files. I want to create a large multi-page TIFF from several single-page TIFFs from a scanner. I have a large number (~400) of images. For the sake ...