ImageMagick: convert image to PDF with A4 page size and image fit to page

Mariusz Pala picture Mariusz Pala · Apr 22, 2014 · Viewed 40k times · Source

I want to convert different image formats (bmp,jpg,gif,png,tiff-incluging multipaged) into a PDF format with A4 page size and with images fit to page (resized if necessary). Image should be positioned at the center of the page and I'd like to define an offset. I tried the code below but there is no offset at the top and the image quality is really poor.

convert png.png -gravity North -resize 500x500 -quality 100 -page a4x5x5 myout.pdf

Is there any way to do that?

Thanks in advance for any help, Mariusz

Answer

JoKalliauer picture JoKalliauer · Oct 6, 2017

If you want to keep the original resolution (lossless) you can try the following command:

convert png.png -background white -page a4 myoutput.pdf

Based on a comment posted before: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24573341/6747994

@m4tx This command only makes sense if the picture has a resolution above 500x800px, it does not zoom in, to avoid pixelated thumbnails.