On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:11 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Dec 2013, Josh More wrote:
>
>  You need to do it in two steps:
>>
>> convert *.png test.mng
>> convert test.mng test.pdf
>>
>> This is how I did my security comic book.  The only gotcha is to check
>> the page order with an "ls *.png" first.  I had to preface each file with
>> the pagenumber (00 - 24) to get them in the right order.
>>
>
I ended up getting the same results with both

convert output/*.png output.pdf
as with the two-step process.


>  I'm not 100% sure that it would work for you, but here's a trick I
> sometimes use in this kind of situation (in Bash):
>
> convert $(\ls -1v *.png) test.mng
>
> The backslash turns of aliasing (which might be adding color to the text).
> The -v option uses "version" ordering of filenames.
>

I'll have to remember that for the future. I had already sorted and named
my pages.

In the end I was able to work around the imagemagick page size issue I was
having by doing an extra padding step to get all the images centered and
the right size before converting to pdf.

Thanks,
Michael Moore
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