[slightly OT] printing to png using a pdf printer, idea
JimP
🖼️ 280 images Cartographer
I'm in the process of typing up over 1,000 Planey Surveys for my Traveller site. Well, not all at once.
Anyway, to type the document in Open/Libre Office Writer, export as pdf, import that into Open/Libre Office Draw, then export as png. Dealing with popups, menus, etc... takes me around 5-10 minutes per file. Absurd waste of time.
I checked in their forums and saw that at least as far back as 2010 in one and 2013 in the other, people had asked about the capability. And were told 'wrong tool'. Okay, a list of binary outputs shouldn't be a problem. Pdf and pngs are binary.
So I hunted around for a solution.
It turns out that Bullzip pdf printer, if you go into the programs menu options, on the General tab, you can print to: bmp, png, pdf, eps, jpeg, pcx, tiff, and ps.
I hope this helps someone.
Anyway, to type the document in Open/Libre Office Writer, export as pdf, import that into Open/Libre Office Draw, then export as png. Dealing with popups, menus, etc... takes me around 5-10 minutes per file. Absurd waste of time.
I checked in their forums and saw that at least as far back as 2010 in one and 2013 in the other, people had asked about the capability. And were told 'wrong tool'. Okay, a list of binary outputs shouldn't be a problem. Pdf and pngs are binary.
So I hunted around for a solution.
It turns out that Bullzip pdf printer, if you go into the programs menu options, on the General tab, you can print to: bmp, png, pdf, eps, jpeg, pcx, tiff, and ps.
I hope this helps someone.
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And I can add a text watermark ! I just noticed also, you can output different types of pngs.
2 bit black & white; grayscale, 16 color 4-bit rgb, 256 color 16bit rgb, 16million 24-bit rpg, and 32-bit rgba
I haven't checked the others, but they likely can do similar.
I've used it quite a few times to mass convert PDF's to jpgs, then resize and other various things.
I don't have any pdfs to be converted. I only have 18 planet surveys done so far. I would have to type up over 1,000 documents, print to pdf, then batch process them. I just don't have the spare time to do that. I do have time to type and then print to png, upload, and link the files a few at a time.