![]() ![]() Questions, suggestions, a word of thanks is always encouraged. I hope this article helped you to merge multiple PDF/images into one PDF in Ubuntu Linux. There are many other useful tasks that can be performed using ImageMagick such as resizing images, converting between image formats and many more but that we would cover in some other article. Step By Step Process to achieve the things mentioned aboveĪfter performing the task I would recommend to change the policy.xml back to what it was before. Open /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml with your favorite text editor, find the line You will have to edit a config file to re-enble the action you need. ImageMagick has some security policies disabling some rights for security reasons. Jump into the next-section of this article to solve this error. You can also use image and pdf interchangeably in this command which makes it even more powerful. To merge pdf files one by one, you can run: pdftools -input-file file1.pdf -input-file file2.pdf -output output. Setting this to 300/600 will give a fairly good output. density sets the dpi that the PDF is rendered at. ![]() We will use similar command that we used before but with some extra options so that quality of the output.pdf is good.Ĭonvert -density 300 file1.pdf file2.pdf file3.pdf output.pdf ![]() Using ImageMagick to merge multiple PDF into one PDF Jump to Solving the Security Policy Error section where we have discussed how to solve this issue. If you get the following error while converting to PDF:Ĭonvert: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy 'PDF' error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/408 The order of images in the command determines the order in which images are merged in the output.pdf. We will use the convert command line tool of ImageMagick to merge multiple images into PDF.Ĭonvert image1.jpg image2.png image3.bmp output.pdf Using ImageMagick to merge multiple images into one PDF Next execute the following command to install ImageMagick: Open the terminal and execute the following:įirst refresh your local package index by executing: The package is already available in standard Ubuntu repository Installing ImageMagick through apt (Advanced Package Tool) is pretty straightforward. ImageMagick comes preinstalled in Ubuntu 20.04 as there are many package that use this tool as a dependency. So in this article we learn about a very powerful command line tool called ImageMagick and learn how to use it. It’s not very uncommon that we might need to merge different PDF’s or images into one PDF in our daily task. ![]()
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