[NBLUG/talk] OT - Quick and dirty PDF to PNG

[Eric Eisenhart]

On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 11:32:07AM -0800, Mark Street wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know of a good util to convert a PDF to a PNG?  I automatically 
> thought of pdf2png ... but nothing is coming up that looks good..

gs -sOutputFile=foo-%d.png -sDEVICE=pnggray foo.pdf

To see all the gs device choices:
echo 'devicenames ==' | gs
I didn't see anything that sounded like a color png, but there's other color
image formats you could convert.  The %d makes a separate file for each
page.

This works with GhostScript 7.07 -- Probably not with something earlier than
7.x, but I'm really not sure when they added PDF support to gs.
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