Note: Our tool does not require 3rd party
products such as Adobe's for the conversion. The message box that is popping up
is generated by Adobe Acrobat Reader. It occasionally checks the internet for
updates to itself. This message is shown because it is illegal to send any
information over the internet without the user's permission. Disable this
message by opening Acrobat Reader and selecting Edit ->
Preferences from the menu at the top. In the new window, select
Update. On the options that appear on the right, select "Manually" in the
Check for Updates box.
There are several generations of the PDF
format. For example, version 1.5 was released with Adobe Acrobat v6.0.
Convert Image to PDF uses the previous generation (v1.4). There are very few
changes to the version 1.5, but some are quite significant. We do not plan
on changing to the v1.5 PDF format for a couple of reasons. The first is that
the imaging portion of the PDF format has only changed slightly in version
1.5. The most notable change is that they've added support for JPEG 2000.
The second major change in the PDF format is a new compression algorithm they
developed. It is mainly a text compression routine. This is the first version
of the PDF format that is NOT backwards compatible. All other versions
(1.0-1.4) can be viewed or printed in many of their Acrobat Reader programs.
If this compression is used, the end viewer must be Acrobat Reader v6.0 or
above.
See
Revisions above for version to version details. Also, Please
submit a bug
if you find one.
"ConvertPDFtoImage" is not recognized as an
internal or external command, operable program or batch file."
IMPORTANT: To use the command line successfully the operating system will
need to know where exactly the application is located. Otherwise, you'll see the
following error:
"ConvertPDFtoImage" is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file."
We suggest you do one of the
following:
A) Set
the path in your operating system's
environment variables to the installation location of ConvertPDFtoImage.EXE. See
your operating system's help for setting the path.
B) Create
a batch file (a text file whose file name ends in .bat) that uses the fully
qualified path of ConvertPDFtoImage.EXE.
For example
the following is a typical batch file:
"C:\Program
Files\Softinterface, Inc\Convert PDF To Image\ConvertPDFtoImage.EXE"
/S"C:\In\Coffee.pdf" /C1 /T "C:\Out\Cream.jpg" /1 * /4 75 /5 200 /V
You may also be able to do
something like this in a batch file:
set ConvertPDFtoImage
="C:\Program Files\Softinterface, Inc\Convert PDF To
Image\ConvertPDFtoImage.EXE"
ConvertPDFtoImage
/S"C:\In\Coffee.pdf" /C1 /T "C:\Out\Cream.jpg" /1 * /4 75 /5 200 /V
One more possibility is to simply
change the active folder before calling the application:
CD C:\Program
Files\Softinterface, Inc\Convert PDF To Image
ConvertPDFtoImage
/S"C:\In\Coffee.pdf" /C1 /T "C:\Out\Cream.jpg" /1 * /4 75 /5 200 /V
Also, it is suggested you us fully qualified paths for any files you specify.
