If you make journey strategies, thinking ahead of time is very important, so do not forget
about the elements. Check the forecast for the destination.
Using a weather conditions-vulnerable vacation just like a beach or ski journey messed up due to a arbitrary climate function might be a miserable practical experience.

PDF to image conversion has its place. I use a similar product to convert PDF files to alter and insert the image files into AutoCad drawings.

The latest FoxIt Reader Ver 5.0.2.0718 (Freeware) is powerful. This is a no dirty tricks, no nonsense, totally free PDF reader. Very Fast.

You can select any area of text that you like and capture as an image to the clipboard. Simply paste into Microsoft paint and save in any of the photo formats offered. e.g. JPG or BMP or TIF or PNG or GIF. Hey presto you have converted PDF to Image. This is selective and there is no need to convert the whole page - only the parts you want.

You can choose to read the PDF as text. You can select any part of the text you like, copy and paste that into any Text Editor and hey presto you have converted PDF to Text. This is selective and there is no need to convert the whole page - only the parts you want.

Installed and registered without a problem. Tried to convert a pdf to jpeg and receive the message "pdfpdi.exe stopped working". Made three attempts with different pdf files same message. I uninstalled the software.

@37 rroberto:
Neither of the above-recommended alternatives are free after a 15-day trial (according to listings on CNET):

__PDF Fill is 19.95
__PDF Creator is 99.95

I don't know what PDF Creator you found on CNET, but it wasn't the recommended software. Try this instead:

PDFCreator - The free PDF Creator and Converter
http://www.pdfforge.org/pdfcreator
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
http://download.cnet.com/PDFCreator/3000-2064_4-10558866.html

According to CNET:
PDFill PDF Editor comes with a free PDF writer to create PDF or Image from any printable program, and free PDF Tools to merge, split, reorder, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop, reformat, header, footer, watermark and more.

Apparently you lose the Editor functions after 15 days, but not the free stuff.
http://download.cnet.com/PDFill-PDF-Editor/3000-6675_4-10295757.html
http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

Since CNET has started wrapping downloads in their download manager which tries to get you to install the Bing toolbar, you might want to get the software from the original source if possible.
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/37122/PaintNET-author-slams-CNET-for-downloadcom-wrapper

Why would anyone want to do this has been asked. In my case, as a teacher I will often confert pdf files to images to make them easy to pop into a PowerPoint presentation. I currently use the excellent (free) PDF-Xchange viewer. There is also PDFill, as has been mentioned, and although parts of it are not free (editor), the conversion and many other great features are free.
As many of you have mentioned, I don't see the reason for yet another program that simply does the same thing (I found several more free converters by simply googling). We even had another one offered here some time ago (PDF to JPG Converter.
If you are going to sell a program that has a free equivalent there needs to be a compelling reason, your's has to do more or be better or be faster, something. Windows comes with notepad, and there are replacements being sold for notepad, but they have many more features.
Just my point of view.

Acrobat 7 (if you have it) will do the same thing

this program installed and registered easyly win 7 64 bit,as readme says first setup exe than activate exe.its not necessery to fill any serial number at all.program is very usefull but people does not know how to use it or i am sure some people dont even know what the pdf file is.i converted my architecture pdf files easyly to tiff. i thank gaotd and the A pdf for free offer

#37

PDF Fill is a shareware *PDF editor* with many additional free PDF tools included in the setup package. After the trial period editor doesn't work, but all included free tools (which are great) remains free.

BTW, there is also a PDF24, a excellent freeware PDF utility, capable for PDF to Image conversion as well.

This product works for me with no problems, it's a lot easier to use than a lot of alternatives.

For those with problems registering, you simply need to install first, run once, close it, then double click the activate.exe

This is the normal process with Giveawayoftheday products, occasionally they may use a registration code instead, but that is rare.

The program works. Just because I may not have a personal need for it does not mean it's useless and that there are not those who could use a program like this. I don't share that "I don't need it therefore it can't be useful" attitude.

There are options to convert certain image formats to grayscale or black and white. It also converts to .doc (Word).

Sure screen capture is great if you have a page or two, but if the .PDF file has numerous pages then it can become tedious to capture a page at a time.

Neither of the above-recommended alternatives
are free after a 15-day trial (according to listings on CNET):

__PDF Fill is 19.95
__PDF Creator is 99.95

Why list these as free alternatives when they are not free?

A nice freeware PDF To JPG converter: FM PDF To JPG Converter Free
Professional PDF To Image Converter for professionals: FM PDF To Image Converter Pro

I'm baffled. WHY would I want to convert a PDF to an image? Perhaps there's a page with an image? Most of the PDFs I have are text-based and having an image of text seems like a wrong-way conversion to me.

Howie

It is great that developers attempt to provide some of the functionality that is provided by more expensive, widely used software, such as Adobe Acrobat. I wish, however, that when there is a software that can be used as a standard, such as Adobe Acrobat, developers who offer an alternative would tell us how they claim their software compares to the standards. I realize that such developers do not attempt to create all of the Acrobat functionality, but as to that functionality they do offer, do that claim that it is equal to, better or not as good as Acrobat.

In this instance, Acrobat offers a very good "save as" capability to transform a pdf into many different graphic and text formats. The transformed material can then be edited using a graphic or text editor, as the case may be, and then re-imported into an Acrobat pdf. OCR will have been lost, but can then again be performed by Acrobat.

HJB

All my PDF files are rips of whole books or comics so turning them into jpgs seems kind of pointless.

The few PDF files that I have that are not massive files are stuff like my CV and I can convert those files to any format using on-line sites such as Zamzar...

Why would anyone need this kind of software?

I will add my endorsement of PDF X-change Viewer to those above. It is overall the best free viewer for PDF files of those I have tried.

I don't know how much more useless a program a needs to be before somebody will stop charging money for it! But, since the company is still in business, they must be selling some of this software, I guess. Good for them! A fool and his money deserve to be parted. I think I will write a "Hello World!" program and put it on sale for $25. Let us see how many will buy that. Maybe I will even agree to give it away for free (but just for one day, though) on GAOTD!

It works very well

@~19: As clear as "Giveaway of the Day - A-PDF to Image"

There is also Featured Titles: A-PDF Image to PDF - but you get to pay for that.

Use the PDF import plugin in LibreOffice or OpenOffice. Convert to text, powerpoint, image, whatever. Edit, and export back to PDF if you want.

#23

Answer here
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/6-ways-to-convert-a-pdf-file-to-a-jpg-image/

Not sure if it is easier to OCR a JPG compared to a PDF. Others can confirm.

Doesn't work. Get a blank folder with nothing in it.

Win7 32 Bit installation.

:-(

I have the same questions as #17 and #21. Can anyone explain? TY!

As per #9, PDF-XChange-Viewer is a must especially if you are on XP sp3.
The latest Adobe reader is not compatible with IE8 and you will need PDF-XChange-Viewer to view pdf's on line.

please tell me about one good use when you want to convert PDF to image. when PDF is world standard, why in the world would i ever need it? if i need to make a pic from part of PDF, snapshot function is there and you can use windows built-in paint to paste the pic and save the file. and wow, file size is 18.6 MB for such a small job? how about PDF to all?

I agree with Yamada at #11

I think that there is no need to install software just to do this.

I assume that the pdf files are converted to jpg for viewing,so why

not go one step further and convert it into a Flash Magazine using AXMAG.

http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/axmag-pdf-to-flash-converter/

This Digital Magazin Creator was on GAOTD around 25 June 11 and is a far better solution.

#2: Don't know how much clearer it can be said than "Image to PDF".

There are dozens of different free utilities for working with PDFs. I use PDFill, which does a full array of things.

The program installed fast and easily on Windows 7 system but in spite of downloading, installing, uninstalling and starting from scratch (3 times), as soon as I added a .pdf file and clicked on "Convert" I immediately get the following "Pdfpti.exe has stopped working."

I rebooted two times with the exact same results, how about not releasing a program before its time, before its ready?!?!? Or is this a way of getting users to pay for what is touted as a free program?!?!?

How is this different than "Save as" Jpeg in all the programs themselves... i.e. word, acrobat, etc.

There is a free online conversion service.

http://www.zamzar.com/uploadComplete.php?convertFiles=pdf&to=jpg

Just converted a 43 page PDF document and another 22 page PDF document into JPG.

Very fast.
Beautiful output file sent to your email address.
Apparently there is no limit to the number of pages for JPG output.

There is a paid Zamzar membership if you want or need. But I don't see the need if you rarely convert.

Some other online converters exist for PDF to Excel and PDF to Word. But for one of them, a two page limit is imposed unless you pay money for membership.

i've download a pdf book from a p2p network. AVG scanned and it says it's clean. But when i open the pdf, a strange exe file tries to connect out. zonealarm suggested to block it and i did! I really need the pdf content but worry if there's anything going on without me knowing it. To avoid this, should i make the pdf pages to images and read?

Installed on Win7.
No problems.
Works well. It creates a directory where the pages are stored as image files. Not sure if I would pay serious money for such a tool though.
Thanks

PDFill PDF Tools which is FREE, it does the following:-
merge, split, reorder, delete, encrypt, decrypt, rotate, crop and reformat PDF pages, to add information, header, footer and watermark, to convert images to PDF, PDF to images or PostScript to PDF, to delete, flatten and list form fields, to scan to pdf, to create transparent image, and more.
It is available at:-
http://www.pdfill.com/pdf_tools_free.html

or as mentioned above: PDFCreator. It's a virtual printer, it generates not only PDF but also JPG, BMP, and a bunch of other image formats while printing. Just use your PDF Viewer and print. Or use any other application and print... It's open source, available at Sourceforge.

fair to say I did not try this one, but I think I will not bother, when I wish to convert PDF to an image, I use an image capture application of the original PDF, I can determined first the size of the fonts and images on the PDF file by zooming in or out and than my image will be captured exactly as I want it. it easy then to edit the images in any image manipulation editor.

JimN, first of all, install your program. Afterwards, exit the pdf converter program. Then click on Activate.exe BUT do not exit the zip yet. Wait for a while and then it should be activated. You do not need a key as the activte.exe is a key wrapper. It is automatically registering and putting in the key for you. That's it.

My review:
Registration was fine. It seems to work fine too. Thanks. There are free alternatives. You can find all sort of freewares sorted by categories and reviews. By the way, some pdf files are drm protected and watermarked so it means that they are copyrighted. If you have an electronic and mobile pdf viewer, you can view it. But you cannot convert them as it is illegal.

Here are some unrestricted free alternatives: :-) http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-pdf-tools.htm#Extract-Images

Here are few pdf converters to text, word/excel, other pdf formats,

Ref #3 Haresh

During installation, it asked to load Ghost-Script 8-7-1 and I allowed it to.

I have the exact same problem. In Batch Convert Mode it merely creates a blank folder in the destination output directory. No file inside.
I have tried it many times.
Batch Mode and Hot folder mode. It just says Server Running and hangs forever.

The company gave us a non-working version.
This is called Tight-Fisted-Alley. They cannot bear to give you a free copy for one day.

I will uninstall this thing and also the GhostScript Ver8-7-1.
And clean the Registry after the uninstall.

I had been hunting for and trying out freeware that can do this function.
So I can warn you of some "freeware" out there:-

SomePDF to image
SomePDF to Word
SomePDF to......etc...

My Comodo Internet Security immediately warned it was secretly trying to do a Global Hook and can change some dll files. Not comfortable with that. Allowed that but don't feel comfortable. Later uninstalled the SomePDF2Image.

Office Convert PDF to JPG JPEG TIFF Free. This gives you a weak converter and endless, constant pestering to upgrade and pay money for the full version. Very sickening.

So what to do when the software developer gave GOTD a dud?

There is an excellent FREEWARE that can do PDF to image conversion.
It is PDF-XChange-Viewer. No dirty tricks in this software.
It really does the job.
You open the PDF file and do an Export to Image from the drop down menu on the left hand side of the screen.

Any suggestions for a freeware alternative?

What's the benefit of this tool over the free, open source PDFCreator, wich is able to generate JPG, BMP, ... of anything that is printable in any application? Can't see why i should bother to try this one...

Installed fine on win7 64bit. Seems to put a "copy" watermark on everything and i couldnt find a way of removing or editing it which is a shame. These guys obviously know their stuff but they have split what could be an excellent program into lots of different programs i.e a PDF watermark program, that should have been included in this program

Cant find Registration Key to install. Can anybody please help?

Downloaded and installed then activated very fast on Win 7 Ultimate 32 bit. Added a PDF file to convert it to Jpeg, it started converting and converted it very fast too, but after converting the output folder was empty.... Not even one Jpeg in that folder...
Tried to convert it again, but with the same results...
Anyone else having the same problem?

Is it a converter Image to PDF, or PDF to Image? Unclear.

I try to activate the program but every time I get a message
"Fatal error:The key is invalid" even though the validity period is on