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rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 25 May 2012, 18:52 Post subject: Announcing PeasyP2J

Update: PeasyP2J has now been incorporated into PeasyPDF.

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

Exprimo is using ghostscript 8.71. Current version is 9.05.

command line way (for whole doc, leave out FirstPage/LastPage):

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 580 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day rcrsn51,

A nice utility.

Using Slacko-5.3.3 as-was, converted OK a pdf made by CUPS-PDF and pages from a printer manual taken off the manufacturer's CD-ROM.
But then had a failure to get jpgs from a downloaded pdf manual for an espresso coffee machine.
So I downloaded the new ghostscript version you provided the link to, installed this into Slacko-5.3.3, and PeasyP2J now works with this pdf as well.

Changing the dpi and re-doing the same page gave no warning about over-writing the original jpg file, but as it all works so quickly, such a warning is probably unnecessary - just do it again until I'm happy with the image, or manually rename the previous file if I need to keep it as well.

Thanks for the pet,

David S.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 25 May 2012, 22:27 Post subject:

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1231 Location: Ukraine

Dear puppians,

Here is a variation that produces png files and can handle transparency. If rcrsn51 wants to add it to his little gem of a program, fine, otherwise it also works standalone.

With kind regards,
vovchik

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 26 May 2012, 09:36 Post subject:

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

Why limit it to one page? It would be trivial to let it include any or no limiter (eg, 4-7) for page selection.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 26 May 2012, 11:31 Post subject:

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

I suppose something like converting a few pages of graphs for posting to a forum or loading as pix on a device (cellphone, etc, vs loading a pdf reader) might be useful.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 26 May 2012, 14:05 Post subject:

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

jpeps · Joined: 31 May 2008 Posts: 2422

Version that adds page span; ex: 4-7

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Thanks for this it works great Smile

One thing I did notice is that the pdf source file needs to contain no spaces in its title overwise you fails to work.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 29 May 2012, 11:24 Post subject:

chrome307 · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 713

Thanks again for the update and great work Smile

A simple idea but so useful, stops me having to upload whole documents when I can just send some a page( s ) from a pdf.

As and afterthought had you considered adding a jpeg library to this application eg libjpegturbo that could speed up the compression/decompression process?

http://libjpeg-turbo.virtualgl.org/

libjpeg-turbo is a derivative of libjpeg that uses SIMD instructions (MMX, SSE2, NEON) to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression on x86, x86-64, and ARM systems. On such systems, libjpeg-turbo is generally 2-4x as fast as the unmodified version of libjpeg, all else being equal.

It's just a thought!