Actually, after I posted the question below, I continued to
experiment, and finally did get a partial solution by using
-geometry, but the resolution is still very poor. -- not comparable
to the original pdf file.  So, how can I improve the resolution
and eliminate all the excess surrounding white space that I
still have?

On Tuesday 01 March 2005 22:14, you wrote:
> Just discovered the *nix 'convert' utility, which seems to be
> quite remarkable, but I can't figure out the syntax to achieve
> the image size output that I want.  I've tried -size -resize and
> -geometry (all of which are suggested in various places), but
> none of them seem to produce the desired result.
>
> When I use this syntax:  convert -size 200x300 file.pdf file.jpg
> (or substituting -resize or -geometry), and no matter what sizes
> I specify, I always get the same size image result which is
> always too small but with more white space around the image
> than was in the original pdf file.
>
> What is the correct syntax to specify a larger image size?

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