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		solardev on July 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Perfect Laptop Out of curiosity, why would you want to combine jpegs into PDFs? And why did that cause such a load? It wasn't just embedding them into PDFs, but somehow recompressing them too?

kayodelycaon on July 18, 2023 [–]

Documents scans. Lots of them. They all needed to get processed so the pages would be the same size.

I don't know what imagemagick does when you ask it to merge jpgs into a pdf. :)

solardev on July 18, 2023 | [–]

Ah, that makes sense

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