Re: Computing Editorial (please read)

[CBFalconer <cbfalconer@yahoo.com>]

BlackJack wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:25:06 +0000, CBFalconer wrote:
> > BlackJack wrote:
> 
> >> Or tell some program like Ghostscript to "print" all pages in seperate
> >> BMP files. Much easier than making snapshots of the screen.
> >
> > How do we do that?  I have the W98 installation of gs and gsv here.
> > AFAICT they only output to the printer, not to files.
> 
> Try 'gs --help' on the command line to get a list of frequently used
> options and/or read the documentation of GhostScript.
> 
> I just tried it with this command line:
> 
> gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r300 -sDEVICE=pnggray -sOutputFile=test%d.png test.pdf
> 
> First two parameters are telling 'gs' to "print" all pages in one run and
> exit after the last page. Next is the resolution in DPI. The device I used
> was 'pnggray' -> grayscale PNG images. There are lots of other formats
> like BMP, PCX, JPG in various color modes. In the option for the output
> filename you'll have to embed a "%d" which is replaced by the page number.

Thanks. An example is always useful.  I have saved this for future
reference, when and if I get around to trying it.  First I also
need to find a suitable OCR program.

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