pdf to full page images

[fredex]

On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:35:57PM -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Nov 2006 12:02:35 +0000
> Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> > Does anyone know if there is a tool that will convert a pdf file to multiple 
> > image files (png, gif whatever..), one for each page ?
> 
> gimp


You can take a copy of pdf2ps (just a shellscript) and modify the it to 
look like this:

...
outfile=`basename "$1" \.pdf`-%02d.tif
                             ^^^^^^^^^
...
exec gs $OPTIONS -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -r300x300 -sDEVICE=tiffg3 "-sOutputFile=$outfile" $OPTIONS -c save pop -f "$1" 
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

and you'll get one .tif file for each page of the pdf. Using the
"-%02d" will give one file per page and number them 01, 02, ..., 99.

From there you can convert to whatever you want with 'convert'.

Or, you can use one of the other GS output options to produce some
other output format, such as png "-sDEVICE=png16m" or others. See
"gs --help" for a list of supported formats.

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