Re: Converting PDF to JPG

Paul J Gans wrote:
Paul Allen <"paul dot l dot allen at comcast dot net"> wrote:
Perk wrote: 
Hi all,

Does anyone know if there's a freeware program that will allow one to convert a PDF file to JPG ? 

You could use pdftopbm to get PBM, and pipe that to pnmtojpeg.  Pdftopbm
is part of the xpdf package, and pnmtojpeg is from netpbm.

Have netpbm and pdftopbm been ported to Windows? 

Who cares about that legacy OS?  :-)

Actually netpbm knows nothing about GUI's, so there's no reason it
should have trouble on Windows.  Xpdf depends on X Windows, so you
might have to horse around with Cygwin or something to get it to
build on Windows.  Better to abandon the platform that makes things
hard and move to something easy like Linux or OS/X.

For those who don't know, the netpbm package allows the conversion
of oodles of formats to PBM and the the conversion of PBM back to
oodles of formats.  Thus almost anything can be converted to
almost anything else almost automatically.


Yep.  Jef Poskanzer originated the portable bitmap concept way back in
the misty depths of time.  It was apparently a good idea.

Paul Allen
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