Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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Hi,

i use this command line

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convert -density 300x300 -units pixelsperinch input.pdf -background white -alpha background -alpha off -compress zip +adjoin output.tiff
to convert PDF into Images. This works good for teh most files. But there is a problem with antialias (i think). When i zoom in the output image i see that the letters in the tiff image don't have so straight edges as in the pdf file. here is a example, the left is the pdf, the right the tiff: Datei von filehorst.de laden (The website is in german in my browser, i hope there is a english version when the system language is set to english).

as i could read here http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/antialiasing/ antialias should be enable by default.
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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Anti-aliasing is implemented in alpha, which you turn off, so you remove anti-aliasing. Try this:

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convert in.pdf -background White -layers flatten out.png
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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This creates one tiff file with all sites of the pdf document in that one tiff.
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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Then use "+adjoin".
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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Result is the same with +adjoin

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convert -density 200x200 -units pixelsperinch input.pdf -background White -layers flatten -compress zip +adjoin output.tiff
But alos without '-alpha off' the result isn't very good when i zoom in the output tiff. For that i tried this command line

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convert -density 200x200 -units pixelsperinch input.pdf -compress zip +adjoin output.tiff
and this

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convert -density 200x200 -units pixelsperinch input.pdf -antialias -compress zip +adjoin output.tiff
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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What version of IM are you using? What version of Ghostscript? Please post a link to input.pdf.
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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i've tested this with this free eBook: http://freebooks.pupilgarage.com/FreeBo ... bookid=201

My IM-Version is

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8:6.8.9.9-7ubunt
and Ghostscript is

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9.18~dfsg~0-0ubu
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

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Does this do what you want:

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convert -density 200 -units pixelsperinch -background White A_Christmas_Carol_NT.pdf -compress Zip +adjoin acc.tiff
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Re: Problem with antialias when converting PDF to Images

Post by LittleKI »

The same bad results.
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