Just make sure that all the files you are wanting to do this have a naming convention that can be ordered easily when rebuilt into the pdf file. jpg files in the directory and merge them into in the on file output.pdf.
Now to use the software to do the merge, navigate to folder holding all the images and use the following: This can be installed with one command:īrew install imagemagick Using ImageMagick ImageMagick is a highly flexible image editing tool that we will use in this case to merge the images. usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL )" Install ImageMagick Launch terminal and enter the command below (hit enter when prompted to progress the install): Homebrew is a package manager that we will to deploy to accomplish the main goal here. In this article we explore an easy method of doing locally on your own machine within terminal on MacOS.įor this we are going to have to use 2 powerful tools called Homebrew 🍺 and ImageMagick. pdf file? Websites can do this for you but are never intuitive to navigate and have restrictions on its use due its potential of being misused. This seems to work fine for me on IM 6.8.0.4 Q16Ĭonvert logo: -transparent white logo.pdfĬonvert logo_trans.pdf -background green -flatten logo_green.Ever wanted to merge a collection of images into a. I am not sure what is the issue with this file?īack to the transparency issue.
Identify: no decode delegate for this image format `vector.pdf' error/constitute.c/ReadImage/550. Identify: unable to load module `/usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.8.0/modules-Q16/coders/pdf.la': file not found error/module.c/OpenModule/1278. User, snibgo, used -alpha remove as the operator, which should work to change the transparency to some color.Īlso I downloaded the vector.pdf and IM could not open it on my Mac OSX Snow Leopard IM 6.8.0.4 Q16, though my browser shows it fine. It needs an operator to act upon it, such as -flatten, etc. background is a setting and does nothing by itself. Whugemann wrote:Convert seems to be unimpressed by the option -background, no matter whether you place it before or after the PDF.