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btw, I think I have got the TIFF library ok: (tks Fred once again!)

magick -list format | grep TIFF

TIFF* TIFF rw+ Tagged Image File Format (LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.6)
TIFF64* TIFF rw- Tagged Image File Format (64-bit) (LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.6)

Thank you Fred for the pointer. Appreciated it! ok, used this command: magick -background white -fill black -pointsize 36 label:"481藉我賜恩褔" result.gif and the gif file reads 481????? I guess this is not a good sign eh? tried some other text that passed: 403數算主恩 It came out 403???? :shock: :shock: :sho ...

Not 100% sure as I don't know how to test it for true UTF-8 compliance but I can rename a folder using the same characters. Windows 7 & 10 seem to take it ok. I can also see the same characters on DOS prompt. Put it in MSWord and it prints well. It also seems to display well in Notepad++ which has a ...

More info for the developers: I have found out that this would work: --------------------- magick 558.jpg -colorspace Gray -type Grayscale -depth 1 -compress group4 481blessings_come_from_God001.tif echo multiplepage magick 559.jpg -colorspace Gray -type Grayscale -depth 1 -compress group4 ...

Thank you so much snibgo for your help. Indeed it would not be too difficult to incorporate the renaming process in the scripts as a workaround.
Thanks you everyone once again and thank you for the amazing magick tool!

1) tried this: magick 558.jpg -colorspace Gray -type Grayscale -depth 1 -compress group4 481藉我賜恩褔001.tif echo multiplepage magick 559.jpg -colorspace Gray -type Grayscale -depth 1 -compress group4 481藉我賜恩褔002.tif magick 481藉我賜恩褔*.tif -units PixelsPerInch -page Letter -density 72 481藉我賜恩褔.pdf results: ...

Note the conversion to .tif never crash. It always crashes on the multiple page conversion to pdf.
i.e.
magick 481藉我賜恩褔*.tif -units PixelsPerInch -page Letter -density 72 481藉我賜恩褔.pdf

Thank you for looking into this snibgo! Really appreciated!

yes, each output PDF has a maximum of 20 input files (the biggest I have seen is 12 input tif files) I am trying to combine a multi page music score from many different jpg files (1 page each) into one multi-page pdf file. I don't think we need to think about the big big command file containing 200 ...

just 1-20 input files per command line.
I have 200+ commnad lines in total. sorry for confusion.

oh... how do u check if the libtif is up-to-date? tks!

I don't think we need to count all 200 images, as they are all sequentially done in a batch file, one at a time, unless u have a memory leak. I am not comfortable posting the tif files publicly as they are copyrighted music scores which our church has purchased many hardcopies as well as paid yearly ...

I used the following command to convert the source jpg file to the 1-bit tif file:

magick infile.jpg -colorspace Gray -type Grayscale -depth 1 -compress group4 outfile.tif

but all the 200+ tif files are of the same dimension. Many went thru ok. Tks

Tks snibgo for your reply.
The version is:
C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.1-Q16/magick.exe

the .tif file dimension is 3608x5409, a 1-bit bw image file.
the .tif file size is about 95Kb.

Tks a lot!

more updates: ran it with 236 command lines in a batch file. 8 files failed. Then I re-ran it with just these 8 files in a new batch file, only 1 failed. Re-ran the last file again and again and it consistantly failed. So I had to manually do the * expansion and it worked. It is really weird and ...