[Gimp-user] Extracting images from a PDF

[CaLy <forums gimpusers com>]

> also, a pdf is an "image" of the original document. adobe created the
> format as a universal document format to be shared and the recipient
> did
> not have to have the program(s) used to create the document (i.e. ms
> office
> or libreoffice). so a pdf is like the johnny cash song about working
> in a
> cadillac plant and building his caddy over the years with the
> different
> year parts. i guess you could say that it's a faux page layout program
> similar ti scribus, indesign, quarkexpress, etc.
>
> hope this helps
Thank you ALL for your solutions !
I will see and it was just a curious thing ,because there is somewhere where i
saw posted images from a magazine, wich i think it is a extraction of pdf,
right? and i was curious about the sizes, dimensions and all.
Maybe the images are not extracted from the pdf of magazine, maybe they are from
before putting it in the pdf, i mean they are "crude" images, like for example
the jpg of the cover of the magazine, and inside pages of the mag ...because
there are some wich are covers, for example, and they are in bad quality, or
resized to appear like hq but it´s not real hq, because when i increase the zoom
on irfanview or other image viewers, the squares of pixels starts to appear ...

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