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Openning a png file in ubuntu, I can see the menu item for 'print to file'. How can I do the same on shell? PS: I prefer installing no extra package, due to lack of root access.

EDIT: the operating system is ubuntu 11.10

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convert xyz.png xyz.pdf should do the trick.

See man convert for more options.

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+1 - additionally you can use wildcards: convert *.png file.pdf – Geppettvs D'Constanzo Jun 30 '12 at 18:49
    
does this require extra packages? – Richard Jun 30 '12 at 19:27
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Yes it requires the ImageMagick package, although it was there by default on my Ubuntu 12.04 – abhshkdz Jun 30 '12 at 19:29
    
Also there by default on lubuntu 12.10. – Rasmus Nov 23 '12 at 7:59
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Be careful if you use wildcards, files might not appear in the desired order, especially if filenames contain numbers (for example, a file named 17.png will precede a file named 2.png). To preview the order in which they will be merged into the pdf file, you can use the command echo *.png. – user396895 Apr 10 '15 at 20:24
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If you want to convert multiple images, e.g. png files, into one single pdf use convert with the specified pdf filename at the end

convert *.png mydoc.pdf

It will merge all png files into a sinlge mydoc.pdf file in a descendant order.

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