Re: [Gimp-user] Extracting images from a PDF

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Tue, 2019-09-24 at 16:26 +0000, dep wrote:
> The heritage of the PDF has something to do with it also. A lot of
> PDFs are basically themselves a single image per page, in which case
> you open it in the GIMP and crop it down to the image,

To be clear, don't open the PDF in GIMP, as this will re-sample the
image.


> all the while weeping over the poor 
> quality of the thing, unless it's a very high resolution PDF. No?

A lot depends on what you’re trying to accomplish. Sometimes i've used
the Inkscape front end to “potrace” to make an SVG vector version of
something, for example. And there've been times when i’ve bought a
physical printed copy of a book so i can scan the images at 2400dpi.

Liam (slave ankh)


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