Re: [help-gv] printing pdf files to bmp

[Orion Poplawski]

Dominik Margraf wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Dies the Ghostscript family (gv, gsview etc) have the ability to print PDF
> files directly to bmp (or tiff) images?  If not, are there any GPL software
> doing this job?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dominik

Usually with something like this:

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=bmp16 -sOutputFile=output%d.bmp 
input.pdf

will create output1.bmp, output2.bmp, ... for each page.

See gs -h for a list of devices.

You can set the resolution with -r  (eg -r72 or -r150x100)

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