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*[http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~nali/computing/PostScript.html Postscript tips]
 
*[http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~nali/computing/PostScript.html Postscript tips]
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*[http://noodle.med.yale.edu/latex/gs/gs5man_e.pdf Ghostscript 5 manual]
  
 
To render one page of a PDF to PPM on stdout (for piping into another program, for example):
 
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 \
 
   gs -q -dFirstPage=5 -dLastPage=5 -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -sDEVICE=ppmraw -r90x90 \
 
     -sOutputFile=- -sNOPAUSE file.pdf -c quit > file.ppm
 
     -sOutputFile=- -sNOPAUSE file.pdf -c quit > file.ppm

Latest revision as of 17:11, 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