Posted: 12/13/2009 10:17:13 AM EDT
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How do you convert a PDF file into a JPG file? I have some Fantastic PDF pictures that should look, and sent around better as a picture files than a PDF files.
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Another way to "take apart" PDFs is by using GIMP:
1) change the PDF's file extension to .ps (which is the extension for a postscript file, if you wondered) 2) open GIMP, and then try to open the .ps file using GIMP. If there was more than one page in the PDF, GIMP should come up with a window that asks you which pages you want to import. 3) Select the page (or a page range) and change the import method from "layers" to "images" so it creates them all as separate images instead of a bunch of layers in one image. (I dunno why they thought that was a good idea to put that setting as default, but anyway...) The downside of this is that it is a "degenerate" way of editing PDFs. GIMP works for editing all the visual elements but if there is any form functionality in the PDF, that will often be broken (or totally removed) when the edited PDF is saved. You can change the PDF extension to "ps", edit it, save it, and then change the extension back to "PDF" if you want––Adobe Acrobat will still open it––because a PDF and a postscript file are basically the same thing. PDFs just support some non-graphical features that postscript doesn't. ~ |