Use imagemagic to put several JPG on one page

Question

I have a folder full of jpg files. When I use the following command,

convert *.jpg assembly.pdf

I get a pdf file with one image per page of the pdf. I would like to put 9 images on each page. Is there a way to do this with convert or mogrify?

Alternatively, I'd like to combine 9 of the jpg images into one jpg image so that I can convert that into a PDF.

Thanks,

z.

Possible duplicate of append images using a grid – hellocatfood Aug 11 '16 at 14:48 — hellocatfood, Aug 11 '16 at 14:48

score 29 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 10 '13 at 23:58

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You're looking for montage from ImageMagick :

NAME
       montage  - create a composite image by combining several sepa‐
       rate images. The images  are  tiled  on  the  composite  image
       optionally adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more.

If you already have convert then you almost certainly also have montage. To get a grid of 3x3 images per page on your pdf try this:

 montage *.jpg -tile 3x3 assembly.pdf

This assumes your images all have roughly the same size. Have a read through the documentation for more complex options.

answered Mar 10 '13 at 23:58

terdon

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This was great! We used montage *.jpg -tile 3x3 -geometry 1000 assembly.pdf to get 9 high quality images per page. We tried it on a sample of 30 images or so, and it worked like a charm! Then we tried to run the full 400 images and... my computer started chirping and seizing, and it consumed 95% of the ram. Eventually we got the message "killed" in the terminal... probably we'll have to run this in batches! :) Anyway, thanks man! I'm going to read the docs in detail, because imagemagick seems like supreme command-line sorcery. – Ziggy Mar 11 '13 at 05:42
I suggest to montage the images into jpg first, and then convert the jpg into pdf. Somehow the size is exploded if you convert into pdf directly. – user3121260 Apr 22 '15 at 17:42

Use imagemagic to put several JPG on one page

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