Usage of buildPdfFromPngs
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Task to convert a list (or directory) of PNGs (or other single-page image types) into PDFs, then concatenate them into one multi-page PDF.
If present,
pdftk is used, otherwise
ghostscript is used.
See also
montageTwoPngLists.
Usage:
CASA <5>: buildPdfFromPngs(pnglist=[], pdfname='', convert='convert', gs='gs', pdftk='pdftk',
maxcount=0, cleanup=True, quiet=False, overwritePdfs=True, papersize='', filetype='png')
Arguments:
- pnglist: a list of PNG files ['a.png','b.png'], or a string which is assumed to be a directory in which all *.png's will be grabbed. If this string contains a *, it will not assume that it is a wildcard string with which to identify files as pngs to grab.
- pdfname: the filename to produce (default = my.pdf)
- convert: specify the full path to ImageMagick's convert command (if necessary)
- gs: specify the full path to ghostscript's gs command (if necessary)
- pdftk: specify the full path to pdftk (if necessary)
- maxcount: maximum number of files to include
- cleanup: remove the temporary single-page PDFs upon conclusion
- overwritePdfs: overwrite any existing single-page PDFs
- papersize: 'letter' or 'a4' or '' for automatic
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ToddHunter - 2012-05-02