Easy to use pfd to image converter

[robertmarilyn]

I wasn't able to get anything I already had on my computer to successfully convert pfd files to images so I looked around and found a website that will convert various application types to other application types.

http://www.convertpdftoimage.com/

mar

[Hawthorne]

Thanks! Lots of other interesting stuff on that site as well!

[robertmarilyn]

Thanks! Lots of other interesting stuff on that site as well!

I know! Where has it been all my internet/computer life? I feel very lucky to have found it.

mar

[robertmarilyn]

Someone asked for help in converting the pdfs to jpgs so I wrote something up...even though I have Infran on my computer (DMS mentioned this as a very good free image application), I wasn't able to get its pdf to image converter to work for me...that is why I had to find another way to convert pdfs to images...I looked around and found a website that did it for me easily.

So I am going to post my directions on how I went from a pdf on my computer to converting it to a jpg to then uploading the jpg to photobucket and then linking the new jpg in a post on this forum so others can see data from my machine.

Let me now go on record as saying that reviewing all of this sure makes it look hard to do...so if anyone wants to explain how to do this better than I did...feel free to do so

And all those times I have griped about hard to understand instructions that come with our software and household appliances...I am humbled now

First, be sure you know where you can find the pdf file that you want to convert and upload. That way when you get to the next step you will have a easier time finding the file.

Go to http://www.convertpdftoimage.com/

There will be a red box that says: Convert PDF File To Image

Under that title you will see: Select your pdf file: Choose file:

Click once on Choose file and a box should open on your screen that will show your computer files...now this is where you will need to remember where your pdf is so that you can go to it and click on it. (I save all my pdf files that I want to convert, on my desktop because I can find them really easily that way...I just have to find my desktop files and then find the pdf I want to convert).

I have my three pages for each day in a file that I name by the date of the data...for instance 050309...when I click on that file and it opens, I hold down the control button and click once on each of the three pages and that way I can upload all three pages at one time. If that is too confusing you can just click on one page and upload one page at a time.

Once you have selected one or more pages, you click on the open button (I have Vista...I don't know if things would be different on XP since I haven't tried this on my XP computer). The little window should disappear and you will have the "convert pdf file to image" page on top again.

Now you click the "convert and download" button...and the files will be saved to your desktop (that is where I save mine anyway...I don't have to change anything to do that since I had the original pdf files saved there). The new files will be be called 050309.jpg (going by what I named my files in the example above).

Okay, now you will want to open your photobucket website. (Be sure you actually log in to the site...I can go to mine and think I am in it because I see my albums but I won't really be logged in...you have to log in to be able to upload the files.)

In my robertmarilyn album, I made a XPAP album...within that album I have begun making individual albums for each day that I upload jpgs. So in this case I would open my robertmarilyn/XPAP/050309 album and there will be a window that says Upload Images and Video with a Choose Files button.

Clicking that button opens up your computer files area...it probably will open up to your desktop files since that is the last place you were working in when you downloaded the jpgs there. So find the jpgs that you had converted and you can either upload them all at once or one at a time.

Now your pdf files are jpgs so they will you will be able to compose a post on the forum and add the links to the images in your post so we can all see them. An easy way to get the image code is to hover your mouse over the thumbnail of the page you are wanting to put in the post and a little window with open up with various coding...the last coding is for images...just click once on the image coding and the coding will be copied...then go to your forum post, click on it and paste the coding to your post.

To be sure it "took" you can click on preview so that you can see if the image shows up properly.

Don't worry if you don't understand this...it sounds hard to me when I sit here and write it down.

I hope this helps and feel free to ask questions if you have any...I won't be surprised if you do...because I'm the one who wrote this.
mar