How Do I question >> PDF to JPG

Hello guys , Please tell me , How do I change a PDF File to a TIFF or
JPG , As in How do I attach a Picture to my Genealogical records that MUST
Be a JPG file , when what was sent me was made in an Adobe camera thingy ,
Nothing I do does any thing to it !, Phil

Hugh Watkins...

use irfan view or photshop elements

menu >> file >> save as

best not to attach pictures to data files
keep them seperately

Hugh W

john...

As far as I am aware, Irfanview will not open PDF files so cannot be
used for conversion to JPG.

Hugh Watkins...

I just did it
and it was so quick and easy I forgot how to explain it :-(

eg testing with

in Acrobat Viewer plugin in MS IE 6

1)
click snapshot
click image

"selected area copied to clip board" mesaage shows

2)
in Irfan View edit menu

paste

and Save as in any of the other formats

quicker to do than write about

Hugh W

john...

The free Windows document conversion utility Omniformat

Lesley Robertson...

The easiest way is to print it and then scan the printout.
Lesley Robertson

Robert Heiling...

Simply click the Snapshot Tool. Then click in the center of the image
that you want. That will copy the image to the Windows Clipboard. Then
load or have loaded your favorite imaging tool such as Photoshop,
Paintshop, etc and paste it into that program. In PaintShopPro I simply
click Edit-Paste-As New Image and save as jpg. If you detest pdf's as
much as I do, you do this a lot.

mickg...

Not neccessarily the originator of the pdf can prevent this at the time
of creation.

Robert Heiling...

Then wouldn't one want to try it first and report back if it didn't
work? :-) If it had worked, then no prob. If it didn't, then he could
use your fallback approach.

mickg...

Open a blank document in your favourite picture editor.
Open the PDF
Ctrl+L makes it full screen
alt+F8 produces a toolbar if you need to make adjustment
F8 removes the toolbar
alt+'print screen' puts it on the clipboard
ctrl+L exit full screen
switch to blank image and paste

john...

Using the copy to clipboard method could degrade the image quality
significantly both in terms of size and in colour depth.

As I mentioned earlier, Omniformat will do the conversion
programatically. It will also split multipage PDF files into separate
JPG files automatically.

mickg...

Sorry I ruffled your feathers

The clipboard method depends on your screen resolution but it does work

Mickg
MCSE

john...

Screens are usually 72 or 96dpi. The image in the PDF could be 300dpi.

It also depends on the original document size. What do you think would
be the resulting quality of the converted image using the screen capture
method if the original PDF image was larger than your screen, e.g. A0
(841 by 1189mm) or Arch E (34 × 44 inches 864 × 1118mm)?

Even for images up to screen size, printing out and rescanning would
probably produce a better quality copy.

Freddo...

My way to create a JPG of a PDF file, open ACDSee, go Open and double click
the pdf file, then save as jpg, one per page. Interesting that a TIFF saved
will include all pdf pages in the one tiff file but oh such a large file.