Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > David Looney wrote: >> Andrew Lentvorski wrote: >>> The scanner I am dealing with produces 600DPI PDF files. Not a big >>> deal, or so I thought. >>> >>> How on earth do I convert the PDF file to TIFF/PNG/something useful to >>> GIMP? >> >> Ghostscript ? >> >> gs -q -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=tiff24nc -r600x600 -sOutputFile=test.tif -- >> ./testpage.pdf >> >> Produces a 4958x7017 file for a US letter test page, which is not quite >> the 5100x6600 expected, but lots of dots (and quite a big file - 100MB). > > Still downsamples.
Might try adding -dDownsampleColorImages=false ? > Is there anywhere one the KPLUG website I could toss the file onto? I'd > like to let you folks take a look at it rather than my vague comments > back and forth. How big are these PDFs ? David Looney -- Help Wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
