extracting bitmap images from selections? [LWN.net]

extracting bitmap images from selections?

Posted Nov 30, 2004 23:11 UTC (Tue) by grantingram (subscriber, #18390)
In reply to: extracting bitmap images from selections? by stevenj
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to PDF Viewers

I agree with stevenj the ability to extract pictures from PDF files is extremely useful - I spend a lot of time reading PDFs at the moment and being able to get at images from them is quite handy.

Of course one can get around it - a more direct way than converting the entire file might be to take a screenshot and edit that in the GIMP - handy if you have a twenty page document.

I'm sure there must be some bit of software that will take bitmaps of arbitary bits of screen though...

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extracting bitmap images from selections?

Posted Nov 30, 2004 23:43 UTC (Tue) by stevenj (subscriber, #421) [Link]

Screenshots are not quite the same, however, because they are limited by the screen size and resolution, whereas an image-capture tool in the PDF viewer can use a higher resolution.

extracting bitmap images from selections?

Posted Dec 21, 2004 2:01 UTC (Tue) by freeid (guest, #22401) [Link]

Silly enough I noticed that if you copy graphics from Acrobat Reader the bitmap will only be in the resolution you are viewing it. You can print the selection to a Postscript file though and thus get the full resolution. But it doesn't seem to work all the time...

Another annoying thing is that you still can't paste an image copied from acroread into Gimp. (In Unix that is, it allegedly works in Windows.) It works with Xpaint though.