Does Xpdf, Open Office or KOffice allow you to open pdf files in edit mode? I was pretty sure that one of these does. I think you still need to have ImageMagick installed because it is used on the backend.

Brian

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On Behalf Of Jason Clinton Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file

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

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So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get

is the first

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page. There has to be some means of advancing through the

pages in the

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pdf file to get the rest. Maybe there's something in the

Adobe Reader

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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.