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

One can also use the command line utilities included in poppler-utils package:

sudo apt-get install poppler-utils
pdftoppm --help
pdftocairo --help

Example:

pdftocairo -png mypage.pdf mypage.png