Convert images to PDF — image_to

This helper function converts a vector of images to a single PDF.

image_to_pdf(files, pdf_name)

Arguments

files: a vector of image files
pdf_name: a string with the name of the new PDF

Value

no return value, called for side effects

Details

Combines any number of image files of almost any type to a single PDF. The vector can consist of different image file types. See the 'Magick' package documentation https://cran.r-project.org/package=magick for details on supported file types. Note that on Linux, ImageMagick may not allow conversion to pdf for security reasons.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Single file
new_pdf <- file.path(tempdir(), "document.pdf")
image_to_pdf("document.jpg", new_pdf)

# A vector of image files:
image_to_pdf(images)
} # }