Fri Mar 19 21:30:37 CET 2010
Ubuntu Karmic ImageMagick: convert jpg to pdf segmentation fault
Converting several jpg files to pdf results in a segmentation fault on Ubuntu Karmic (ImageMagick 6.5.1-0). A workaround is to use a different compression algorithm:
# zip compression convert *.jpg -compress zip output.pdf # no compression (large files) convert *.jpg +compress output.pdf
The bug is fixed in newer versions of ImageMagick. If you don't want to install a lot of packages from the lucid repository, you can use karmic packages from my ppa. This is the newest release to this date (version 6.6.0-7). I have not tested it extensively, but the packages seem to work.