Re: How to automatically figuring out the optimal resolution for a pdf file?

Peng Yu <[email protected]> Sun, 24 Apr 2011 20:28:37 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.image-magick.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Anthony Thyssen
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> And how would acrobat do that!  That is the question!
>
> PDF's (or postscript) are not supposed to have a 'ideal density' or
> resolution. But if they contain raster images, those raster images may
> have a ideal resoltuion.  However a PFD could easily have multiple
> rasters each with different ideal resolution.
>
> So how any program can pick an ideal resolution is beyond me!

I think that you may not need to think about very complex cases. The
simplest case is that each pdf page only have one image (as it is
originally from a tif file). The best resolution for any page is just
the resolution of the original image. Is this very difficult to be
added in convert?

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Regards,
Peng