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Re: JPEG to PDF question

Newsgroups comp.lang.postscript
Date 2019-04-11 16:03 -0700
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Subject Re: JPEG to PDF question
From luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com>

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On Thursday, April 11, 2019 at 4:59:41 PM UTC-5, Scott Hemphill wrote:
> Guy <guy@guysalias.tk.invalid> writes:
> 
> > Eli the Bearded wrote:
> >
> >> I'd like to be able to easily turn JPEGs into PDF.
> >>
> >
> >
> > Can use viewjpeg.ps of Ghostscript distribution.
> >
> >  gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o out.pdf viewjpeg.ps -c (in.jpg)viewJPEG
> 
> You can also use netpbm tools, along with Ghostscript's ps2pdf:
> 
> djpeg in.jpg | pnmtops | ps2pdf - out.pdf
> 
> In my CentOS distribution, djpeg is from libjpeg-turbo-utils,
> pnmtops is from netpbm-progs, and ps2pdf was already installed from
> ghostscript.
> 

This does indeed perform the conversion, but I think it will
decompress and recompress which may be lossy AFAIUI.

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JPEG to PDF question Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-06 21:33 +0000
  Re: JPEG to PDF question John Forkosh <forkosh@panix.com> - 2019-04-07 06:39 +0000
  Re: JPEG to PDF question Guy <guy@guysalias.tk.invalid> - 2019-04-07 14:52 -0500
    Re: JPEG to PDF question Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-07 21:54 +0000
      Re: JPEG to PDF question ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2019-04-08 10:30 +0100
      Re: JPEG to PDF question Martin Leese <please@see.Web.for.e-mail.INVALID> - 2019-04-08 10:24 -0600
      Re: JPEG to PDF question Javier <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2019-04-10 18:10 -0500
        Re: JPEG to PDF question luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-10 18:01 -0700
        Re: JPEG to PDF question ken <ken@spamcop.net> - 2019-04-11 10:50 +0100
    Re: JPEG to PDF question Scott Hemphill <hemphill@hemphills.net> - 2019-04-11 17:59 -0400
      Re: JPEG to PDF question luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2019-04-11 16:03 -0700
      Re: JPEG to PDF question Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-04-12 00:33 +0000
        Re: JPEG to PDF question Mark Carroll <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2019-04-12 07:15 +0100
  Re: JPEG to PDF question orr721@gmail.com - 2019-06-16 07:11 -0700

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