Convert Multi-Page PDF to Single JPEG or TIFF File on Mac

Question

I am trying to submit a paper to an academic journal. My file is in PDF form. Unfortunately, the journal only accepts papers as JPEGs or TIFFs.

I can turn a single page into a JPEG using preview. However, I would rather not have to manually combine all the pages using image editing software.

Is there a way to do this quickly?

Answer 1

Would the following imagemagick command do what you need?

convert -colorspace rgb file.pdf file.jpg

Here's some additional info as well.

Answer 2

Converting to JPEGs

To convert the PDF to JPEGs, you can use this Automator flow:

Combining the JPEGs into a Single JPEG

No clue on this. I turns out, after some searching, that the journal will accept a zip file of the single jpegs. I ensured they were received in the correct order by naming them 01.jpg, 02.jpg, ..., 10.jpg, ..., 35.jpg. If anyone else using a Mac is submitting to a Springer journal with this issue, this appears to be the quickest solution.

Answer 3

@credford

Try following command to convert pdf to high quality images.

 convert           \
-verbose       \
   -density 300   \ 
   -trim          \
    <pdf path>.pdf      \
   -quality 100   \
   -flatten       \
   -sharpen 0x1.0 \
    <jpeg name>.jpg

Answer 4

I don't think the free Reader will do this, but if you can find someone with the full Acrobat, they could open your PDF and save each page out as image files.