On Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:43 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:

> You can use pdftopnm (app-text/poppler) to generate bitmap images from
> your pdfs. Then you can use pnmtopng (media-libs/netpbm) to create pngs
> from them. I suppose there are also tools for creating jpegs and such
> alike but I haven't looked yet.

> Make sure you have enough disk space spare. Those pnms can be quiet
> huge.

Don't write them to disk then. Piping the output of pdftopnm into pnmtopng
will save disk space and speed up the process.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Oregano: the ancient Italian art of pizza folding.

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