Converting pdf files to to jpg ?

[Jim Hawkins]

Anyone know how to convert a .pdf file into a .jpg one ?

Jim Hawkins

[charles]

You can do it with Adobe Acrobat Pro

[Andy Cap]

[Tim Watts]

gimp will render a PDF at any DPI you like and can then save it in any raster form you want, be it PNG, GIF, JPG etc. And it's free. and works very well on Windows as well as everything else.

[Hugh - Was Invisible]

The snipping tool in Windows 7 will save anything you can see on your screen to jpg

[Tinkerer]

In Acrobat Reader, click "Edit" and then "Take a snapshot". Cursor becomes a cross. Click and drag to highlight the area you want to turn into a JPG. Then open Paint, or any other image program, paste the image and save in whatever format you want.

[The Natural Philosopher]

I use GIMP

freeware on Linux, and probably windows.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Thats as good as anything else..

[Roger Mills]

But that will only give you screen resolution - whereas the original PDF file may be much higher res.

[Tim Streater]

Open it in Preview and do a Save As. Simples.

[polygonum]

My first resort for any graphic file is Irfan View. Always worth having on hand.

[dennis]

Its free on windows, as is nearly all the useful free software.

[Jules Richardson]

What OS?

I normally use Imagemagick to do it in Linux.

cheers

Jules

[Ian Jackson]

In message , Jim Hawkins writes

You have several suggestions. However, yet another way is to use 'Bullzip PDF Printer'.

As well as producing PDF files from almost anything, Bullzip* can produce eight other image formats - including JPG.

*I almost always use Bullzip (freeware) to produce PDFs. Also needs Ghostscript V8.6.4 or later.

[djc]

Gimp will do it

[Ian Jackson]

Yebbut.... Gimp is a bit of a beast to learn, and is really not for the faint-hearted!

[Newshound]

Good for taking a section. Sometimes you may have to look under "Tools" or "Selection Tool".

Or just "Copy File to Clipboard" and paste to Paint, etc. Note that these methods just do one "page" at a time, not a whole multi page document.

[Steve Firth]

How apt.

[Steve Firth]

Aharr ee be a usin' Ghostscript an' it be a doin' all that convertering for eee young masser Jim. Haarrr.

[Weatherlawyer]

Hardly.

A Linux file I was using in Ubuntu UE could do batch of hundreds of files from one type to another.

I forget how but it was a piece of cake.