[sf-lug] PDF embedded graphics

Brian Morris cymraegish at gmail.com
Mon Jul 11 18:03:03 PDT 2011


You can reverse load some pdf files into Scribus (desktop publishing s/w).


On Sun, Jul 10, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Jeff Bragg <jackofnotrades at gmail.com>wrote:

> Anyone know anything about extracting _embedded_ graphics (charts, tables,
> figures) from PDF files?  Note that I am _not_ interested in extracting
> pages as images (I already know how to do that, and it doesn't separate
> embedded elements), only embedded elements.  It seems like there should be a
> way to do this in Ghostscript, but I can't seem to track one down.
>
> It also occurs to me, given that PDF is an image-based format, that it may
> not be possible to separate embedded elements (they may get merged with
> relevant page info to form a single image/page without any metadata retained
> to guide later element separation).
>
> _______________________________________________
> sf-lug mailing list
> sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
> Information about SF-LUG is at http://www.sf-lug.org/
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/attachments/20110711/afbd4988/attachment.html>


More information about the sf-lug mailing list