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Convert images to one combined PDF file (based on pdftk and imagemagic)
#!/usr/bin/env bash
set -e
if [[ ! "$1" ]]; then
echo "Usage: pdfer page1.png page2.png..."
exit 1
fi
output_file="combined.pdf"
pages=""
for file in ${@}; do
if [[ ! "$file" =~ .pdf$ ]]; then
convert "${file}" "${file}.pdf"
pages+=" ${file}.pdf"
else
pages+=" ${file}"
fi
done
pdftk ${pages} cat output ${output_file}
rm -f ${pages}
echo "Done - saved as $output_file"
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