[Gimp-user] Multiple Images to Single File - Text

[rich404 <forums gimpusers com>]

> Hi
> I have a lot of old periodicals I'd like to convert to digital
> formats. Late 19th early 20th century magazines mostly. I can take the
> images, get them into gimp, crop/white balance, and then open all the
> edited images as layers and safe as a gif animation. That works. Can I
> do something similar and end up with a jpeg?

I am assuming that the gif format is only to 'bundle' all the images into a
single file, rather than an animation which will 'play' in a web-browser. If it
is an animation you are stuck with gif.

A file with multiple layers, that can be viewed easily. Jpeg is a single layer
format. Practically that leaves PDF format. While Gimp will export a pdf, it
flattens multiple layers giving a single page. There is a script to produce
multiple page PDF's but there are caveats. Have all the individual pages open as
separate images.

screenshot https://i.imgur.com/DmEhpzO.jpg

The script once installed is in File -> Create -> Export Multi Page PDF.

Give it a try, if it is a file size issue, than might not be any use.

An alternative is a command line application ImageMagick which produces (only)
marginally smaller PDF file size.

rich: www.gimp-forum.net

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* http://www.gimpusers.com/system/attachments/744/original/sg-save-pdf-multi.scm

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