Hi !

I recently had a request to:

• Produce PDF documents from various images (5) in JPEG format;
• Make a single PDF file from the 5 small PDF files.

My server at home is FreeBSD (yes, I use and abuse of “JAILS”) so let’s look at the software needed for the maneuver.

• ImageMagick (for ‘convert’)
• poppler-utils (for ‘pdfunite’)

I leave the choice of installation to you but as both exist as packages, let’s go for the easy way.

# pkg install ImageMagick
# pkg install poppler-utils-23.02.0

Once this first part is over, let’s get to the heart of the matter.

1. Convert images to PDF files

$ for a in *.jpeg; do convert $a $a.pdf; done

2. Creation of the final PDF file from the 5 files created above.

$ pdfunite 1.jpg.pdf 2.jpg.pdf 3.jpg.pdf 4.jpg.pdf 5.jpg.pdf demo.pdf

Job done.

Regards