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Originally Posted by rmanasa
Greetings -
Idiot in Da House time. First, thanks for all the effort to address this long standing, complex and frustrating issue. Greatly appreciated.
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Don't worry, when it comes to using new (breaking edge) software, we all are at a disadvantage and feel frustrated when things don't work and that makes us fell a bit sheepish about asking for help (myself included).
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Now to business. I've extracted the Windows version, copied a pdf into that directory, opened a command prompt, cd'd over to that directory and typed "pi old.pdf new.pdf". As soon as I said ".pdf", most of you started shaking your heads, I know - pi is looking for pgm or pbm files.
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Good that you caught yourself on that one!
I was able to find a compiled 'pdftoppm.exe' for windows users at
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html .
Just get Win32 (built with MSVC):
xpdf-3.02pl2-win32.zip and extract it; therein you will find the .exe and help .txt.
I think you already have
pi-exe.zip.
That should do it. Just issue:
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pdftoppm -r 180 -f 1 -l 1 -gray -aa yes a.pdf a
where you can replace "-f 1 -l 1" with your first and last page numbers to convert, 'a.pdf' with your .pdf filename and the following 'a' with any prefix for the resulting .pgm filename you want.
p.s. don't venture onto version 0.2 just yet as no-one has been able to make that work yet on Linux/Mac or Windows. Stay tuned!
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I'm reasonably intelligent, but not a programmer. I haven't been able to figure out how to create either of these file types from reading the thread. Is there some kind soul out there who can show me how to learn and take advantage of this fine conversion program?
Looking forward to your reply. Thank you!
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You're welcome!