>>>Does anyone know of some freeware that can open up a PDF document and save it as an image file (GIF would be prefered)?
>>>I know this can be done with Photoshop, but I don't want to shell out the money when I only need to do this operation once or twice a month.
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>>>Thanks,
>>>Einar
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>>Do you have the full version of Acrobat or just the Reader? The full version has graphic select/save options.
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>I only have the reader. Have you used the select/save feature in the full version on an image? Does it produce a good quality image?
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>Einar

I make 8 x 10s in PowerPoint of a mixture of photo and text. I then make PDFs of them for others and ocasionaly make a JPG of the PDF file to share it with others. The PowerPoint printout is perfect, but printing a 8 x 10 of the JPG is not bad at all.

Oddly enough the photo part is very good. It's the fonts that really shows the degarade in the quality. If you'd like to see an example, visit my site at www.wonderley.com. Then see the show we're doing right now, "Brigadoon". From there look at the "very huge" link to the version of the "Cast and crew shot with names".