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by getut
2018-02-02T13:58:18-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion
Replies: 9
Views: 4480

Re: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion

ok, then is there a way to have convert simply extract the existing images (these are all scans from a copier), maintain the density and just convert to black and white? Everything else that I tried resulted in a dramatic loss of readability from the original scan. They don't need to be very high qu...
by getut
2018-02-02T11:49:07-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion
Replies: 9
Views: 4480

Re: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion

Ok.. now that it is technically "working". I can see what the problem was. And it was definitely disk space. But that leads to the realization that something is still wrong even though it is succeeding. I am testing on an 18.6MB PDF file with 70 pages. System monitor showed over 40 Gigabyt...
by getut
2018-02-02T10:43:22-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion
Replies: 9
Views: 4480

Re: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion

<head slap> 3 days of reading pages and pages and not once was there a mention that those could only be tuned DOWN.

It worked. Thank you!
by getut
2018-02-02T09:54:27-07:00
Forum: Users
Topic: convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion
Replies: 9
Views: 4480

convert or mogrify failing with resource exhaustion

How can I get convert or mogrify to tell me WHICH resource is getting exhausted? I'm trying to convert large multi page color PDF's (8Mb 20-30 page docs) to monochrome and nothing I have tried has gotten me past the resource exhaustion. I'm using a pretty powerful machine running Ubuntu 17.10 with ~...