Hi Johan: Thanks for the input! I'll make the change you suggested. I saw that form of the system call in The Perl Cookbook, but went with the simple version as it was a personal application rather than a web application and I didn't think I would hack myself. LOL. Always good to learn a better way!
Ghostscript was mentioned in the Perlmonks post that started all of this. I tried convert first and it did what I needed, so I stopped there. I'll go back and look at ghostscript for future reference. Also, in software, never say "final version"! Guess I should have said "latest" or "next" version.... Thanks again for taking the time to comment. James
