Using Gimp to print part of a page in a .pdf file

[Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO]

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

>-----Original Message-----

>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:
>> So far, I've tried the pdf to jpg conversion, and all I get 
>is the first
>> page.  There has to be some means of advancing through the 
>pages in the
>> pdf file to get the rest.  Maybe there's something in the 
>Adobe Reader
>> 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.