Converting a bunch of pdf files to pnm without loosing resolution

[Aaron Konstam]

On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 22:13 +0100, Andy Green wrote:
> Somebody in the thread at some point said:
> 
> > Ok., I finally was pressed to resolve my confusion. The question was to
> > convert a pdf file t0 pnm. pstopnm converts ps files to pnm. What am I
> > missing?
> 
> pdf2ps
> 
> -Andy
> 
I may be drunk but if you look at your posts and your advice about dvi
nowhere did you suggest using pdf2ps before using pstopnm. 

If I missed them I am sorry for the interruption. Look at the dialog I
include below:
On Sat, 2007-08-25 at 16:49 +0100, Paul Smith wrote:
> On 8/25/07, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > >>> Is there any way of converting a bunch of pdf files to pnm
without
> > >>> loosing resolution?
> > >> What happens when you use the -dpi= option on pstopnm?
> > >
> > > OK, Andy, but how can one find out the dpi's of our pdf file?
> >
> > Well the pdf is not normally already rasterized in the case of text,
so
> > for that there is no "dpi of our pdf file".  It will render the text
> > nicely according to the dpi you asked for.
> >
> > If there are raster images (at various dpi) in the pdf then it will
> > scale them to the dpi you asked for AIUI.  So I guess you should
pick a
> > dpi that is close to the highest image dpi in the pdfs (eg, 300) and
run
> > with it.
> 
> Thanks, Andy. In fact, the pdf file that I have got contains a scanned
> document. Is there some way of determining the dpi used in the
> scanning work?
> 
> Paul
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