I have a PDF file i need to make lots smaller in memory. It is 3 megs now . How can i convert it to a jpg file. Will Irfanview do this. I can't seem to find a good answer on Google. Any suggestions.

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Three megs is not very big at all. It's small enough to be sent by email as well.

It's also not big enough to worry about downloading on dialup internet either...

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In addition to Wombat's comments you do realize the image quality degrades as you shrink? There are no free lunches. PDF is pretty good at compressing things. The only thing could be if you have a PDF of an image and it was made at a higher resolution like 600 or 1200DPI. Then converting it may be OK.

Marshall, I think you mean you need to decrease the filesize, not make the pdf smaller in memory. Why exactly do you feel that 3 MB is too large?

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The brute force method I use all the time at work if it's a one or two page jpeg is to just do a screenshot while the .pdf file is loaded (SHIFT-PRINTSCREEN), paste it into any graphics editing program (even paint will work), then select the pdf and crop (or, if using paint, copy the selection to the clipboard then repaste it back into paint) and save as .jpg. Once you get the hang of it, it's faster than loading another program to do this.

It is for my wifes english paper she has to e mail to a professor.So he has no idea how to do it he said he wanted a PDF so I did that. Now he says to all the students hes having trouble opening their files. Well i guess he is my first attempt was a 25 meg file so i worked withit uintill i got it to 2.5 megs.So he says to do it some other way. So i resolved the issue by scanning each page written onto into a DOC file, I did that 5 times one for each page.Then I copied each page into one file. It wound up to be 1.5 megs then. Hes just gonna have to deal with that unless heknows a better way lol...

Thanks for your responses.

I actually wrote this post here yesterday and it vanished for some reason.

Thanks again

Hope you don't mind me intruding, but what you say is confusing. Your wife's English Professor is asking her to send a PDF document instead of something else.

A PDF file is a document file, not an image. It is a special format created by Adobe to allow anyone to read documents in a special reader.

If your wife has used a word processor like Microsoft Word to create this English paper then it will be a Word.doc . To convert that into a PDF document you need specialist software, like Adobe's Acrobat, but such software is not cheap.

It seems a little unfair for a college/university professor to demand that a student spend money to convert a document file to a PDF file, especially since most computer systems will now have the ability to read .doc files.

There may be shareware software that will convert documents to PDF, but there will be limitations. Google will help you find any if you search for, Convert Doc to PDF.

Or there is an online service here;
http://www.doc2pdf.net/converter/
that apparently converts it for free. But if this paper is valuable and/or confidential, then I am not sure using that service would be wise.

I hope that helps.

Seeker

Thanks for the answer. I guess I may have been a little vaigue. SHe had sentences to diagram.This entails having to write on a typed page.In order to send him this assignment I had to scan the typed page into a DOC file.He originally wanted a PDF file. Cute pdf printer will do this with no problem with about any file. WHen I converted it into a pdf file it was 25 megs. I managed to do some rescanning and get it to a 2.5 meg PDF file and sent that. He had no idea what he was asking his students to do because he then sent e mail back saying he couldn't open such large files and for them to do something else. SO I then scanned them into a doc file and sent that.The writing on the pages was what was so difficult to overcome, It is extremely hard to draw lines in WORD and write on them if not impossible. He should kept in mind these were English teachers NOT computer engineers doing this.

Thanks again for the responses.

Marshall

Marshall,

If you want to convert anything to an image file, you may need to look at,

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