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[kingandy]

What did you do at work today, Timmy? Why, I opened 120 PDFs in Photoshop and resized them and saved them as JPGs because some fucker only has the images for his product catalogue as PDFs for some reason.

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[richc.livejournal.com]

For that sort of thing ImageMagick and a small script are your friends....

[kingandy]

Nah, they're inconsistent resolution and dimension, it's basically got to be done by eye. Bah.

[stsquad.livejournal.com]

What, the target JPG's all have to be different sizes?

[kingandy]

In some cases. The PDFs were all at different resolutions and they had to be a max of 500px (I decided), but some of them were just too low-res to be at that size. No way to tell which ones from the files themselves though.

Also, I then had to decide whether to make the thumbnail by expanding the background, or cropping the image.

[jewelstar93.livejournal.com]

My mom does the same thing. I think it's a business thing, like that's the way to do sends and they're sticking with it. I hate PDFs. They suck all my life out of me. The can rot in hell. But, yeah I owe my mom some work, so I think I'll install stuff and give her some lessons in how not to use pdf.