Re: HP5004 Manual is up.

On Fri, 22 May 1998 12:02:48 -0700 (PDT), aek@spies.com (Al Kossow) wrote:

>ok.. how did you extract the pages from the .pdf file?

I spent an afternoon once trying to figure out how to do that.

It turns out Ghostscript (available on all platforms) reads .PDF files directly,
and can convert them directly to postscript files. I don't know if it can
convert to .BMP files directly though (that'd be nice I should probably read the
manual or something)

If you use Ghostview (which is a front end for ghostscript) you can copy the
current page to a clipboard (Alt-E, Alt-C) then paste it to a file as a bitmap
(Alt-E, Alt-P). Throw in a '+' for next page, and you can get the keyboard
rythm down, and crank through a 73 page document pretty darned fast!

But make sure you have your "Media Description" set to the D.P.I., and color
depth, etc., you want to save at before you start!

-Zonn

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