[plug] ImageMagicking PDFs

[ryan at is.as.geeky.as]

> Does anyone know a way to specify only 1 page in the pdf->ps conversion
> process?  Or even better, a command line tool to cut 1 specific page from a
> pdf into a separate pdf document before this entire process?  I know
> ghostview can export specific pages, but that has to be running in GUI mode.

I eventually found webmagick on sourceforge (and a Debian package).  It is a Perl script that uses ImageMagick, PerlMagick and gs to thumbnail directories, it does PDFs in a matter seconds.  Once I pull it apart to customise it a little better it will do what I want.

Thanks for the tips,

Ryan