People who've found this useful should also check out
PDFrasterFarian. It does a similar conversion of PDF->image-LRF. It sadly lacks the beautiful interface, but, for now at least, gives much better results. It increases boldness and contrast of text, has better support for portrait/landscape, and gives true autocropping.
I hope that maybe you and I could work together to create a solution that has both a great GUI and great results.
Take a look at this comparison
image 1 is the original pdf
image 2 is JAP
image 3 is PDFrasterFarian v2