Document converter...

[casey]

Playing with pictures of Heatsinks/ fans I wanted to convert some of the PDF pictures so I could use them on my web site. I looked at a converter for RTF files to JPG files. Right now I'm trying a demo of UDC snapshots that works fairly well. I just thought maybe someone has a better find somewhere?

[photolady]

I use printscreen, then paste into Irfanview and save as jpg. In Irfanview you can adjust image size, add text, etc. Then save the image to jpg. You do have Irfanview right? :D

If not it's here:
www.irfanview.com and get the plugins as well. Oh and it's free.

[casey]

I downloaded the program as I have been using LView for so long now that I can't remember when I started using it. Will this program allow you to convert RTF files to JPG? I never tried using print screen in PDF files or converting the way you describe. Will give it a try. Thanks.

[photolady]

Irfanview won't convert RTF to Jpg, in fact I don't know of any program that will convert a photo to text, or vice versa. But with irfanview you can do like I said and use printscreen. I do this daily for loading photos of parts, front panel photos, etc, to forums. So.....yeah, give it a try. I think you'll find it works great.

[casey]

What I wanted to do is convert a picture from a PDF file to a jpg. I was doing this by capturing the picture to the clipboard and that would give me an RTF file which I would then convert to JPG by using UDC snapshots. I've been using a demo of the program and it leaves a watermark on the photo. I imagine if i purchase the program there would not be a watermark. I just wondered if someone had a better program of converting PDF files?

[photolady]

I know of programs that read pdf files, but I don't know of any that all you to change them. Only full acrobat will do that.

Let me show you how I do this, maybe that will help. It will take about an hour to put it together but I'll be back. Hang in there. ;)

[photolady]

Ok what I did in the first photo you see is I captured all of Acrobat with the mobo photo shown. Then I paste that into irfanview and crop to show just the mobo photo. Then I save the mobo photo as .jpg with 90% compression. Nothing hard about this Larry. This way you do not have to go through the clipboard. The photo is saved to the clipboard in win98 same as it is in xp. It would seem to me that you can just copy and paste into Irfanview without ever having to open the clipboard....as usually copy and paste works in any OS.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/photolady/allofthem.jpg

[casey]

I'll give that a try. Thanks..

[photolady]

Did it work?

[jcampi]

This might sound a little strange, but if you use a scanner and imaging software Paperport will convert many types of image files. I do this all of the time at work. You can open a pdf file and save it as other file types. I generally scan the image as a native Paperport file (*.max) and save it as a pdf file many times. The program works very well and is the best software I have ever used for a scanner. I am using version 9 and have no issue with it at all.

[casey]

I used UDC Snapshots for all the conversions I needed and then haven't tried anything else. If I need to convert more files I'll give these suggestions a try..