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Old 07-24-2007
femtox77@gmail.com
 
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Default Re: Convert a pdf to an image format with imagemagick

On 24 Lug, 09:54, gosha bine <stereof...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23.07.2007 17:26 femto...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> > Hi to all!!!

>
> > I'm trying to convert a pdf file into an image, for example JPG or PNG
> > format, with ImageMagick. I use the command line. For example: convert
> > header.pdf header.jpg. But I obtain a bad result. The jpg's quality is
> > very low. Why? I tried to use - quality 100 option but there isn't
> > improvement. I think also that this option isn't active for the pdf
> > conversion to an image format or not? I need some good ideas :D...

>
> > Thanks to all

>
> > fem

>
> hi there
>
> ImageMagick doesn't actually convert pdfs, all it does is to invoke
> Ghostscript. You might want to call GS directly to gain more control
> over it. Example of a GS command:
>
> gs -q -sDEVICE=jpeg -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1
> -r<OUTPUT RESOLUTION> -sOutputFile=<OUTPUT>.jpg <INPUT>.pdf 2>&1
>
> this rasterizes first page of <INPUT>.pdf into <OUTPUT>.jpg with
> resolution 300.
>
> --
> gosha bine
>
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Really thanks, now I try this method...

Femtox

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