Martyn,
If you have access to a LINUX system -- if not install a Ubuntu virtual
machine... -- ImageMagick provides the tools you need and will export
all pages from a PDF document to jpg, png or whatever format you chose.
The command line syntax can as be simple as:
% convert my_document.pdf multiple_images_%d.jpg
However, you will have to tweak the syntax for best quality results -
that depends on the PDF document you are processing. There are many
examples of that syntax online. Note: depending on your LINUX basic
installation, you may have to install ImageMagick and ghostscript. I
think ghostscript provides its own syntax to do that particular job on
its own and ImageMagick actually uses ghostscript to do the conversion
job, but IM offers many more options and better integration with
programming languages like PHP or perl.
I can help with some of the details if you chose that route and needs a
bit of help with the exact syntax.
Alain
On 10/22/2012 03:51 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
Thanks,
But won't I then have to import each jpg image individually? As said I
can do this already. The advantage as a pdf was that I thought I'd be
able to import the whole set of images (around 300) in one operation.
regards
Martyn
--- On Mon, 22/10/12, Albert Reyerman <[email protected]>
wrote:
From: Albert Reyerman <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Image editing/enhancing software for pdfs
To: "David van Ooijen" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Lute Dmth" <[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 22 October, 2012, 11:16
Do not try to import a pdf file,
convert the pdf into jpg first, thenopen as jpg.
Search the web for free software,.
there are many programs available.
Regards
Albert
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Am 22.10.2012 12:05, schrieb David van Ooijen:
> I use Gimp. Bit of a learning curve, but very powerful.
>
> David
>
> On 22 October 2012 11:43, Martyn Hodgson
<[3][email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I sometimes use Picasa to improve the readability of vague/low
contrast
>> images (adjusting 'shadow' and highlight' etc) and this can
work very
>> succesfully on jpgs. However I tried importing the recently
available
>> BN guitar tablature N25008 as a pdf into Picasa and it wont have
it
>> - after searching I see that Picasa doesn't 'support'
pdfs..........
>>
>> So I seem to have no recourse but to do individual 'screen
shots' to
>> save images (from jpg or the pdf) to Picasa for editing. But
this is
>> very laborious and time consuming and I can't belive there isn't
some
>> similar (FREE!) image editing software which can be used with
pdfs -
>> can anybody suggest something like Picasa but into which one can
import
>> a pdf file and then edit the image?
>>
>> MH
>>
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