http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:24:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/pdf-image-extractor/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/pdf-image-extractor/#comments Mon, 04 Aug 2008 18:09:43 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=5850 The easiest way to extract images out of pdf documents is to use a software that can do that for you. I sometimes use a screenshot software to save a single image that I need but if its about several or even all images of a PDF document then a tool like Some PDF Image Extract is the application of choice simply because it is so much faster than the manual approach.

PDF Image Extract was designed with ease of use in mind. The user can load multiple pdf documents at once which are then queued in the main program window. Information about each pdf document are provided in the lower pane.

The right contains settings for the output images. The range of pages that shall be processed can be selected as well as the output quality and format of the images.

A click on the start button processes all selected pdf documents. The images are saved into newly created directories in the pdf document root folders.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2008/08/04/pdf-image-extractor/feed/ 16 http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/05/create-fully-functioning-pdfs-for-free/ http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/05/create-fully-functioning-pdfs-for-free/#comments Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:03:37 +0000 Daniel Pataki http://www.ghacks.net/2008/03/05/create-fully-functioning-pdfs-for-free/ Yesterday I spent about 4 hours trying to get a pdf right. I was making a subscription based newsletter for my website, so I obviously needed something of high quality. I couldn’t use Acrobat, since that costs an insane amount of money, and everything else I use couldn’t get it right.

Sure, you can use CutePDF, BullZip or PrimoPDF to install PDF printers, but these are only adequate (Primo was the best I think), but even if you do get the quality you need, you won’t get the links and table of contents, and when making a 20 page newsletter, these are sorely missed.

After spending hours trying to figure out something, I even tried editing the PDF code by hand I realized that the solution was right under my nose, free and easy to use. I found out that OpenOffice has PDF export, and I quickly imported my Office doc, made some alterations and exported it. The export was finished in about 10 seconds and the result was perfect.

Quality is very high and most importantly, links are left in tact, and table of contents are derived from the heading structure. I didn’t need to edit, alter or erase anything afterwards, it was as if I created the PDF with Acrobat 8. If you need powerful PDF conversion, head on over to OpenOffice.org and get yourself Open Office for free.

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