Tuesday, January 14, 2003, 2:50:25 PM, you wrote:
> If I would had more spare time, I could write such a thing by
> myself, but there are other (and for me more important) things to
Sometimes I'm a very irresponsible person, and do things I shouldn't
do - like writing a PDF-to-JPG-Converter, when I'm supposed to get
some sleep...
So I have looked at jpedal, found that one of the examples was nearly
what I needed, and started coding.
The result can be downloaded at
http://www.hendriklipka.de/newton/pdfconv-0.0.1.zip (950k).
I have tested with a documentation of one of my programs:
- 160k in size
- 26 pages
- created by pdfLaTeX
The resulting images are
- of image size 595x841 pixels (I don't know if this is hard-coded in
jpedal, but the images could be scaled)
- of file size 15k up to 90k (depending on the amount of text)
- 1400k as whole
I have tested with JDK 1.3.1 and 1.4.0 under WinNT. I'm not sure if it
works under MacOS/X, because for writing the JPEGs jpedal uses a
com.sun.* package, which may not be available. If it doesn't work, one
would need to change the image writing to another package.
What's missing:
- generating a HTML page linking all image
- scaling the images (what would be the right size?), to reduce the
file size
- setting a high image quality, to have good readability
- test with a mac
- test with more and different PDF files
- maybe we need a GUI?
Since the jpedal examples are licensed under LGPL, my program needs
also be put under LGPL or GPL. If anybody wants to use this code -
just do it!
Regards,
hli
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