http://askubuntu.com/questions/50170/how-to-convert-pdf-to-image
In the poppler-utils
packages there is the utility pdftoppm
capable of converting pages from a pdf file to ppm, png or jpeg format:
pdftoppm -png file.pdf prefix
will produce prefix-01.png
etc. for each page. By default the resolution is 150dpi. Increase the resolution (for higher quality output) as follows:
pdftoppm -rx 300 -ry 300 -png file.pdf prefix
To print only one page, use
pdftoppm -f N -singlefile -png file.pdf prefix
where N
is the page number, beginning with 1.