Tiff conversion memory hog

[rubinsta]

Hi

I'm trying to convert a large number of tiffs into a single pdf file. There are about ~300 tiffs at 80KB each. I'm using the command:

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$ convert *.tif one_file.pdf 

The process chews up all the computer's memory (2Gs!). Are there better, more efficient ways to accomplish this task other than a simple convert command?

I'm using IM 6.4.2 Q16 on Mac OS 10.5.

Thanks!

[magick]

Try this command:

• convert -limit area 1mb *.tif one_file.pdf

Its slow but it will not hog your machine memory or processor.

[rubinsta]

Thanks for your quick response!

"-limit area 1mb" writes most of the process to disk cache? I tried it and it used less memory but not enough to make my computer usable while the command was processing.

I guess I'll write a loop to process to convert each tiff file to a pdf and then combine.

Thanks again!