Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/...
Date: Sun, 10 May 2009 20:24:31
Message-Id: 20090510212427.630bf333@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] PDF to png/jpg/... by Florian Philipp
1 On Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:43 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
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3 > You can use pdftopnm (app-text/poppler) to generate bitmap images from
4 > your pdfs. Then you can use pnmtopng (media-libs/netpbm) to create pngs
5 > from them. I suppose there are also tools for creating jpegs and such
6 > alike but I haven't looked yet.
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8 > Make sure you have enough disk space spare. Those pnms can be quiet
9 > huge.
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11 Don't write them to disk then. Piping the output of pdftopnm into pnmtopng
12 will save disk space and speed up the process.
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16 Neil Bothwick
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18 Oregano: the ancient Italian art of pizza folding.

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