On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 05:17:46PM +0200, David Triebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> >is it possible to convert a pdf to jpg with swftools? I mean it's possible
> >in the different way, to convert jpg to swf. I guess i will need another
> >tool fort hat, o rare there any options to build jpg from pdf or swf?
>
> I guess swftools is absolutly the wrong tool for you as your question
> doesn't have anything to do with swf ;-)
Actually, swftools *can* convert a pdf to an image. :)
Option #1:
pdf2swf -p1 file.pdf -o file.swf
swfrender file.swf -o file.png
Option #2: Use the python gfx module with the following script:
import gfx
doc = gfx.open("pdf", "file.pdf")
page = doc.getPage(1)
img = gfx.ImageList()
img.startpage(page.width,page.height)
page.render(img)
img.endpage()
page.save("file.png")
Of course, ImageMagick or pdftoppm is easier and more straightforward.
(Even though Option #2 has the advantage that you can also extract
the text out of a PDF in the same go, or even run OCR over it)
Greetings
Matthias
