Comments on: Converting PDFs into Image Files (Citimortgage PDF Reprise) http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/ free software, free culture, free association Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:17:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/comment-page-1/#comment-3465 Scott Carpenter Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:23:20 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/#comment-3465 I hadn't heard of gv but I'll give it a try the next time I'm monkeying around with PDF files. Thanks for the tip! I hadn't heard of gv but I'll give it a try the next time I'm monkeying around with PDF files. Thanks for the tip!

]]> By: rcjhawk http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/comment-page-1/#comment-3464 rcjhawk Fri, 22 Feb 2008 02:54:47 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/#comment-3464 Just a thought: Have you tried using <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gv/" rel="nofollow">gv</a> to look at the PDF files? gv is an old graphical front-end for ghostscript, and it does a reasonably good job on PDF. It's light-weight, to boot, and you can "print" the file directly to postscript. Whether or not the postscript file will be smaller than the original PDF is left as an exercise for the reader. Just a thought: Have you tried using gv to look at the PDF files? gv is an old graphical front-end for ghostscript, and it does a reasonably good job on PDF. It's light-weight, to boot, and you can "print" the file directly to postscript.

Whether or not the postscript file will be smaller than the original PDF is left as an exercise for the reader.

]]> By: Scott Carpenter http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/comment-page-1/#comment-3459 Scott Carpenter Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:42:02 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/#comment-3459 Hi, ArtInvent. Thanks for visiting and sharing your thoughts on this. Hi, ArtInvent. Thanks for visiting and sharing your thoughts on this.

]]> By: ArtInvent http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/comment-page-1/#comment-3458 ArtInvent Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:52:03 +0000 http://www.movingtofreedom.org/2008/02/16/convert-pdf-into-image-file/#comment-3458 Another option is stone simple: view the document large enough so you can read all the text and do a screen capture. This makes a super small file and you could even resave the png as a jpg - tiny. It doesn't convert to bitmaps, but one of my favorite PDF utilities is a little command line gem called pdftk (PDFToolkit). Say you want to take all your individual bank statement pdf's and combine them into one pdf file (which I like to do for the year end). Easy. Say you want to take page 3 from one pdf, rotate it 90 deg. do the same with page 12, and save that to a two-page pdf. Etc, etc. Supposedly the next version of Inkscape 0.46 due out early '08 will also allow you to open a pdf file (single page) and export as an image file, amongst other things; possibly even re-export as pdf. As well as do all the drawing things etc Inkscape does so well. Then there is PDFEdit which does even more and in a graphical interface and re-saves to pdf. You can extract text, rotate pages, delete stuff, change the text of a pdf if you don't like the math! It's getting better all the time. Another option is stone simple: view the document large enough so you can read all the text and do a screen capture. This makes a super small file and you could even resave the png as a jpg - tiny.

It doesn't convert to bitmaps, but one of my favorite PDF utilities is a little command line gem called pdftk (PDFToolkit). Say you want to take all your individual bank statement pdf's and combine them into one pdf file (which I like to do for the year end). Easy. Say you want to take page 3 from one pdf, rotate it 90 deg. do the same with page 12, and save that to a two-page pdf. Etc, etc.

Supposedly the next version of Inkscape 0.46 due out early '08 will also allow you to open a pdf file (single page) and export as an image file, amongst other things; possibly even re-export as pdf. As well as do all the drawing things etc Inkscape does so well.

Then there is PDFEdit which does even more and in a graphical interface and re-saves to pdf. You can extract text, rotate pages, delete stuff, change the text of a pdf if you don't like the math! It's getting better all the time.

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