Re: ImageMagick and PDF::API2

"spinningwebz2002" <spinningwebz2002-/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.pdfapi2
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- In [email protected], "Mr. Shawn H. Corey" 
<shawnhcorey@...> wrote:
>
> spinningwebz2002 wrote:
> > Before I install ImageMagick on my server, has anyone ever used 
it to 
> > create image files from pages created using the PDF::API2? If 
not, 
> > maybe you have a different way of creating individual images from 
the 
> > pdf pages created using PDF::API2? I basically want/need to 
create 
> > thumbnails of the pages after I create the pdf so a user can see 
what 
> > the pdf looks like without having to open / look at the pdf. This 
needs 
> > to be done automatically, no user input.
> 
> I haven't tried this but a message I found has an interesting note: 
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.php/browse_thread/thread/f073
7b7b4c7d87f4/8b8f769aa4fb9ba2
> 
> 
> -- 
> Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
>    Shawn
> 
> "For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by 
doing them."
>   Aristotle
>


Thanks shawn! Will try to do just that with ghostscript.

Reading the message makes me think of somethign else how does 
PDF:API2 handle resolution? Are images that are incorporated into the 
pdf set to any specific resolution or just whatever resolution the 
image originally was?

Bill H
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