On 12-Apr-04 Maura Edelweiss Monville wrote:
Is there a tool to translate from PDF to PNG or GIF or PS ? The reason is taht I'd like to incorporate some pages from a PDF file into a StarOffice document. Thank you.
Hi Maura,
Your best starting-point is probably to use Acrobat Reader
to convert the PDF to PS.
After that you can convert to pretty well what you like.
I like to use ImageMagick's "convert" program for most
conversions.
To convert to PS using acrobat reader, you can
a) Open (view) the file with acroread, then print-to-file.
The printer output from acroread is PS.
b) Use acroread to generate the PS directly, without viewing.
The essential option for this is -toPostScript and the
basic command is like
acroread -toPostScript -pairs PDFfile.pdf PSfile.ps
There are many further options which control details of the
resulting PS file. See
acroread -help
Ted.
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