PDF to picture

Hello,

I seach the best way to convert the first page of a PDF file into a picture
(png, jpeg ..)
In fact i have for the moment 1500 PDF files and i want that the user see
the first page before use the link.
thanks

On 14.09.2007 13:14 Toto wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I seach the best way to convert the first page of a PDF file into a picture
> (png, jpeg ..)
> In fact i have for the moment 1500 PDF files and i want that the user see
> the first page before use the link.
> thanks
>
>

hi

try ghostscript, a command line postscript and pdf renderer

www.ghostscript.com

it goes like this

exec("gs -q -sDEVICE=jpeg -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1
-sOutputFile=output.jpg input.pdf 2>&1");



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