The solution to readable PDF to PNM conversion is supersampling as you suggested. We typically use this command:
convert -density 400 -colorspace rgb ENR_L17.pdf -resize 25% ENR_L17.ppm In regards to speed, sometimes its as simple as having a modern processor with plenty of memory. We got a complaint recently about a process taking 20 minutes under Windows. We downloaded the image and the command and it ran in 9 seconds on our 3.0GHZ processor with 8GB of memory under Linux 64-bit. If that's not an option your most promising speed up would be to use Ghostscript from the command line. Use supersampling and then use a netpbm command to reduce to the final size. _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
