We’ll probably check this out for a project where we’re going to be working with a lot of PDFs (I want to thumbnail the first page and show it on a web page). Although it does sound a little like maybe this script just extracts _images_ from a pdf instead of creating an _image_ from the total contents of the pdf.
SourceForge.net: Project Info – PdfRipImage
PdfRipImage is a shell script to automatically extract images from PDF documents and convert them to a format of your choice (such as JPEG or TIFF). It runs on UNIX-like platforms and requires utilities from netpbm and xpdf.
Via Freshmeat
3 responses to “SourceForge.net: Project Info – PdfRipImage”
You are quite correct. The script will not make an image of the .pdf document. There are other utilities which will achieve this.
NMP
evince-thumbnailer is what you need. Install evince ( http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/ ) and type
evince-thumbnailer yourfile.pdf anicethumbnail.png
I think it fulfills your needs.
Fred
Thank you Fred! We’ll check it out.