what is a standard application to convert pdf files into jpeg files?
AFAIK there are a number of apps to choose from…
All the LibreOffice apps should be able to do that…
Adobe Acrobat as a dedicated PDF viewer should be able to do that…
And, many more apps should work, too.
TSU
sorry, I stated my problem unclearly. First hand, you are right. My original document addressbook2n.ods can be exported directly to either PDF or JPG. However, it is a multi-page document and my printer (a brand new EPSON XP-6100 print station) only accepts single page JPEG-documents.
Is there a way to create partial documents in (single page) without resorting to a program that copies screen contents? Additionally: which such program would you suggest?
Thanks a lot, Bernd
I don’t know about automated converting a multi-page file to individual pages…
That might have to be done manually, but hopefully a single job wouldn’t be too big to do, saving one page at a time.
But,
Take a closer look at the “Save As” settings for whatever app you’re using… Seems to me I’ve seen this done with a simple selection but I can’t remember the app I was using. I’d also be a bit surprised that your EPSON can’t handle a multi-page PDF, I usually use HP printers and I’m pretty sure the printer can handle a multi-page PDF without a problem.
You shouldn’t need to convert to another format like jpeg.
Unless you have some other reason to do the format conversion…
TSU
If you install the “ImageMagick” package and, the “ImageMagick-extra” package from the default openSUSE Leap 15.0 repository, then, you can, with the “convert” CLI command (which has a batch mode … ), convert .PDF files to .JPG/.JPEG/.JPEG-2000 files …
- But, the installation of the “ImageMagick-extra” package will pull in 2155 additional packages:
autotrace hp2xx ImageMagick-extra libautotrace3 libglut3 libkpathsea6 libpaper1 libpng12-0 libpotrace0 libsigsegv2 libsynctex1 libtexlua52-5 libtexluajit2 libwmf-tools libzzip-0-13 perl-CGI perl-File-Copy-Recursive perl-File-HomeDir perl-File-Path perl-File-Which perl-Font-AFM perl-HTML-Form perl-HTML-Format perl-HTML-Tree perl-HTTP-Server-Simple perl-IPC-System-Simple perl-MIME-Charset perl-Test-Warn perl-Tk perl-Unicode-LineBreak perl-WWW-Mechanize perl-YAML-Tiny python3-tk texlive texlive-12many texlive-12many-doc texlive-a0poster texlive-a0poster-doc texlive- …
…
texlive-pdfcrop-doc texlive-pdfjam texlive-pdfjam-bin texlive-pdfjam-doc texlive-pdflatexpicscale texlive-pdflatexpicscale-bin texlive-pdflatexpicscale-doc texlive-pdfpages texlive-pdfpages-doc texlive-pdftex texlive-pdftex-bin texlive-pdftex-doc texlive-pdftex-fonts texlive-pdftools texlive-pdftools-bin texlive-pdftools-doc texlive-pdf-trans texlive-pdf-trans-doc texlive-pdfxup texlive-pdfxup-bin texlive-pdfxup-doc …
…
Unfortunately, “ImageMagick” alone cannot convert from .PDF – you have to install “ImageMagick-extra” to enable the “conversion from .PDF” feature …
By my count, 2, not 2155:
# zypper -v in ImageMagick-extra
Verbosity: 1
Non-option program arguments: 'ImageMagick-extra'
Initializing Target
Checking whether to refresh metadata for
...
Selecting 'ImageMagick-extra-7.0.7.34-lp150.2.21.1.x86_64' from repository 'Update' for installation.
Resolving package dependencies...
Force resolution: No
The following 2 NEW packages are going to be installed:
ImageMagick-extra 7.0.7.34-lp150.2.21.1
libdjvulibre21 3.5.27-lp150.1.11
2 new packages to install.
Overall download size: 662.3 KiB. Already cached: 0 B. After the operation, additional 1.7 MiB will be used.
Continue? [y/n/...? shows all options]
My total installed package count is only 1695 (of which texlive=0).
Hmm … – zypper is reporting the following “–requires” for ImageMagick-extra on this Leap 15.0 system:
Requires : [13]
libpthread.so.0()(64bit)
libpthread.so.0(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libm.so.6()(64bit)
libm.so.6(GLIBC_2.2.5)(64bit)
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.4)(64bit)
libMagickCore-7.Q16HDRI.so.6()(64bit)
libMagickWand-7.Q16HDRI.so.6()(64bit)
libMagickWand-7.Q16HDRI.so.6(VERS_6.0)(64bit)
libopenjp2.so.7()(64bit)
libwmflite-0.2.so.7()(64bit)
libdjvulibre.so.21()(64bit)
ImageMagick = 7.0.7.34
libMagickCore-7_Q16HDRI6 = 7.0.7.34
rpm isn’t shedding any light on the reason why – libdjvulibre21 was already installed on this system – required by Okular …
Therefore, I haven’t the foggiest idea why ImageMagick-extra wanted to pull in the extra packages and especially the TexLive packages …
BTW, on this Leap 15.0 system, 3608 installed packages …
If you only have 10-20 pages gimp is alright for the job.
You open the pdf file in two ways, as multi images or as layers.
If you are not used to layers in gimp, use the open as image.
Be sure to check the number of pages you want in the dialog is correct
(i.e. 1-20)
Then start exporting every page as jpeg in one single folder.
thanks to all! It seems that I’ll have to explore Image Magick (plus Extra) further.
Bernd