how best to convert a pdf to a high-res jpg?

[Bryan O'Neal]

Problem with his PDF is that it uses a copyrighted font, if you try to
load it natively into illustrator or photo shop it will force a font
substitution (Since I do not have that font) The substitution is not
that close to the original either.  Even if it is not very F/OSS I did
try it that way first just to see how complex the image was.  
However, since we are speaking of windows software and F/OSS solutions;
I have used apps like Genuine Fractals in the past, and was wondering if
anyone know of a plug in for GIMP that was similar?

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Dennis Kibbe
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 9:00 PM
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Subject: Re: how best to convert a pdf to a high-res jpg?

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 14:02 -0700, Josef Lowder wrote:
> .
> What is the best and most efficient way to convert a high-res 2.5-meg 
> pdf to a high-res jpg without losing (too much) image quality?

Joseph,

What exactly do you want to convert? Is there an image in the PDF that
you want to extract? Or is it the text that you want?

There are utilities that will extract the text from a PDF and, of
course, you can always select, copy and paste small amounts.

Photoshop will let you extract an image file from a PDF and GIMP will
open a PDF, let you select the page number and set the resolution.

Of course, if the original image file is of low quality or the
compression was set too high when the PDF was created you'll be limited
in how good an image you can produce. Something like Genuine Fractals
(Windoze) can help in that case. 

Maybe you can bypass the PDF altogether and go to the source of the
image. Maybe something as simple as googling will find the original.

Dennisk
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