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How to generate a multi-paged PDF from images in my account?

Itay Taragano

You can assign a tag to the desired images. All images sharing a tag can be merged into a single multi-paged PDF, sorted alphabetically by their public IDs.

For example, here's a PHP API call for generating a multi-paged PDF of all images sharing the "test" tag:

\Cloudinary\Uploader::multi('test', array("format" => "pdf"));

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  • Zacharia Grierson

    Could you include watermarks with this.

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  • Nadav Ofir
    Edited

    Hi Zacharia,
    You can indeed add watermarks to the PDF pages using something like (Rails):

    Cloudinary::Uploader.multi("test", format:"pdf", transformation:{overlay:"logo",width:100,opacity:50,gravity:"north"})
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  • Foo Studio

    Hi guys...

    Is there a way to compress the PDF generated?

    Because I try this with 8 images (JPG) of 200kb, and the result was a PDF of 11MB file size.

    And I have to generated a PDF of 60 to 80 images, and this will generate a PDF of 100MB approx., and this is too much bog, I think.

    Thanks in advance.

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  • Ido

    Hi

    We currently don't have a way to compress the pdf file generated.

    However, if you would open a request at support@cloudinary.com we would be glad to look into your use case more thoroughly and see how we can help.

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  • Erich Wehrmann

    I've set this up as suggested, but the PDF file this is returned is of low quality. Is there a way to preserve the quality of the individual files when they are combined in this manner?

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  • Maor Gariv
    Edited

    Hi Erich,

    Can you share some more details (the PDF that was created and the individual images) for us to further investigate?

    If privacy is an issue here, please open a new support ticket (https://support.cloudinary.com/hc/en-us/requests/new) and share the info there:)

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  • Peter Mburu

    Hi,

     

    Could you help out with converting pdf document to image arrays with page number as index and page content as images?

     

    Thanks

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  • Aditi Madan

    Hi Peter,

    We have the explode API which does exactly this: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference#explode_method

     

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  • Mark Redman

    Hi,

    Is it possible to choose an order, possibly using a second tag?

    Thanks

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  • Shirly Manor

    The Multi controlled by alphabetical order of public ids of pdfs - you can name them like 01-xxx, 02-xxx, etc

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