Rails - Aug 2006 - converting pdf to images

i am working on a catalog for our customers to order printing. i have 
worked a little bit with imagemagick and pdf_writer. currently i am 
uploading a pdf and an image for the preview of the file. i''m just 
wondering if there is a way to convert a page of the pdf to a jpeg so 
that i only have to upload once.

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I have not done with with rmagick, but I have with the command line utility
"convert."

Example - Creates some-0.jpg, some-1.jpg, etc (one for each page).
:$ convert some.pdf some.jpg

mark

On 8/7/06, Josh Kieschnick <jjkiesch@gmail.com>
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> i am working on a catalog for our customers to order printing. i have
> worked a little bit with imagemagick and pdf_writer. currently i am
> uploading a pdf and an image for the preview of the file. i''m just
> wondering if there is a way to convert a page of the pdf to a jpeg so
> that i only have to upload once.
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ok cool. i did not realize that imagemagick already had it built in to 
be able to do that.

i am using file_column for the upload, i may try and see if i can set it 
up to convert it on upload some way. is there any easy way to just grab 
the first page of the pdf for the conversion?

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