[Gimp-user] Extracting images from a PDF

[fa-flyingalone <forums gimpusers com>]

> Hello Carlos
> I guess there are many ways to do the saving of images in gimp from a
> pdf,
> This is the way I do mine
>
> when you load the pdf in gimp
> 1-use the 'Resolution' tumbler up arrow (RS) to increase the size of
> images,  I
> go for a height of 5000 px using (RS) that gives a good size image and
> spare
> size to crop if needed,
> 2-now you image size is worked out  - click open pages as 'images ' if
> you want
> to use each one separately if you chose layers all the pages will be
> in one
> image as layers
> 3-select only the pages you want to use or select all and 'import'
> 4-the image files will show up as tabs and do what you want then 
> 5-then lastly use 'export as' NOT 'overwrite pdf', when exporting I
> choose png
> format holds more info at higher Mb'sinc alpha channel instead of jpeg
> unless
> you want smaller file size
> Is this what you needed
> I did the step by step only to explain the way works for me,
>
> Good luck
> Hope this helps


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