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Peppi Holland
Asked: 2018-10-02 22:23:17 +0800 CST

how to convert the content of subfolders recursive to pdf format? [duplicate]

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i have a folder with tons of subfolders containing png's. how can i step recursively through the subfolders and convert that files to pdf?
The pdf should have the name of the subfolder and be saved in the starting folder ... there are no folders in folders, no problem with double names expected. i'm beginner, tried other ideas, but terrible things happend ...

joe

command-line convert-command

2 Answers

  1. A script like this would do the trick

    #!/bin/bash
for D in `find . -mindepth 1 -type d`
do
    convert `ls -1v $D/*.png` $D.pdf
done
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  2. Assuming directory tree as so:

    $ tree pngs/
pngs/
├── png1
│   ├── hw3.png
│   └── test.png
└── png2
    ├── hw3.png
    └── test.png

    You can achieve what you ask the following way:

    for dir in pngs/*; do 
    cd "$dir"
    convert ./*.png "$(basename "$dir")".pdf
    cd - 
done

    The result:

    $ tree pngs/
pngs/
├── png1
│   ├── hw3.png
│   ├── png1.pdf
│   └── test.png
└── png2
    ├── hw3.png
    ├── png2.pdf
    └── test.png
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