On Wed, 23 Jan 2008, Josef Lowder wrote:
> I tried that ($ pdfimages -j most.pdf most.jpg) and that worked great
> to produce an excellent, high resolution result (27.5-meg) with this
> name: most.jpg-000.ppm ... but with only part of the original pdf
> content showing. Some layers vanished.
>
> I used: convert most.jpg-000.ppm most2.jpg and got a result 1/10th
> the ppm file size: 2,736,590 -- great resolution, but missing parts.
I thought you just wanted the image.
Instead of "pdfimages" use "pdftoppm" instead (also from xpdf or
poppler-utils).
> Not sure what you mean by that. I don't think I need to "enlarge"
> anything. I just need a jpg with high enough resolution to make
> a good photo print.
Why not print direct from the PDF then? Converting a PDF to JPEG doesn't
seem correct for printing since you then (usually) need to convert the
JPEG back to a printable format.
Jeremy C. Reed
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