I don't know how do this, but if all else fails, there is always the screen shot method. That's what I usually end up doing the few times I've had to do something similar.

On 6/8/05, Gary Hildebrand [email protected] wrote:

Got a tough nut to crack here --- all you power gfx users out there, gather around while I tell you a tale . . . .

I had a fellow ham copy an instruction book for me -- and he scanned two pages at once per file page, and I'd like to edit it somehow, and enlarge that part to full page size for printing. The original book was designed for people with microscope vision.

Doing a Yahoo search, there's a program for Windows (one moment while I toss my cookies) that converts it to a jpg file.

So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get is the first page. There has to be some means of advancing through the pages in the pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the Adobe Reader program that might do that. If not, there should be . . . . .

Gary Hildebrand St. Joseph, MO

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On Wednesday 8 June 2005 18:43, Gary Hildebrand wrote:

So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get is the first page. There has to be some means of advancing through the pages in the pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the Adobe Reader program that might do that. If not, there should be . . . . .

Somewhere around 300 DPI should be enough for your purposes so, make sure ImageMagick is installed and do a little math:

300 x 8.5 in = 2550 pixels wide by 300 x 11 in = 3,300 pixels tall

$ convert -size 2550x3300 mypdf.pdf mypdf_page%02d.jpg

And that's it!

See `man ImageMagick` and `man convert` if you get lost.