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To render one page of a PDF to PPM on stdout (for piping into another program, for example):
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  gs -q -dFirstPage=5 -dLastPage=5 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -r90x90 \
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    -sOutputFile=- -sNOPAUSE file.pdf -c quit > file.ppm

Revision as of 17:09, 4 September 2008

To render one page of a PDF to PPM on stdout (for piping into another program, for example):

 gs -q -dFirstPage=5 -dLastPage=5 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -r90x90 \
   -sOutputFile=- -sNOPAUSE file.pdf -c quit > file.ppm