Converting a PDF to PNG

Question

I\'m trying to convert a PDF to a PNG image (at least the cover of one). I\'m successfully extracting the first page of the PDF with pdftk. I\'m using imagemagick to do the

Answer 1

To convert pdf to image files use following commands:

For PNG gs -sDEVICE=png16m -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r300 -o a.png a.pdf

For JPG gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dTextAlphaBits=4 -r300 -o a.jpg a.pdf

If you have multiple pages add to name %03d gs -o a%03d.jpg a.pdf

What each option means:

• sDEVICE={jpeg,pngalpha,png16m...} - filetype
• -o - output file (%stdout to stdout)
• -dTextAlphaBits=4 - font antialiasing.
• -r300 - 300 dpi