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Very baffling. I run the same commands, and get a much larger file size with the 6930 version of imagemagick.

$ pdftoppm menu_pinnacle_grill_dinner.pdf foo
Error: Mismatch between font type and embedded font file
Error: Mismatch between font type and embedded font file
Error: Mismatch between font ...

In this case,
pdftoppm menu_pinnacle_grill_dinner.pdf foo
This produced three ppms, I tried using convert with just one (foo-1.ppm) or multiple (foo*.ppm). Both produced an order of magnitude difference in size.

Both systems have libjpeg.so.62
The pdf usually has a few images that are extracted to multiple ppms and then combined to one jpeg, thus the use of -append.
The same source file is used on both systems.
A sample pdf is:
http://www.hollandamerica.com/assets/cruise-vacation-onboard/menu_pinnacle_grill ...

I'm converting a pdf to a jpeg on linux. I run it through pdftoppm to get a ppm file, and then convert the ppm to a jpg using Imagemagick.

However, when I use a newer version of imagemagick, the jpeg filesize is an order of magnitude larger with the same command and same source file.

The command I ...