Ask MetaFilter questions tagged with pdf and images Questions tagged with 'pdf' and 'images' at Ask MetaFilter. Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:04:23 -0800 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:04:23 -0800 en-us 60 Updating my portfolio website and need help with web navigation, images, hosting and more. Updating my online portfolio and need help with web navigation, images, hosting and more. I would like to update my online writing portfolio, which is currently a blog hosted by Blogger. Each post is a thumbnail image along with some introductory copy. The thumbnails link to large jpg images <br> stored on Flikr. I want to spend a minimum of time updating my site, and I need to be able to make updates with ease. I have old versions of Photoshop and Dreamweaver at my disposal. Can you help me with these questions?<br> <br> 1. Navigation: On Blogger, new posts appear in date order rather than being organized by category. I am not happy with this navigation limitation. Is there any way around this without creating a whole new website independent of Blogger? I have been thinking about purchasing a domain name and then using an HTML template, but it would be easier if I didn’t have to do this. If I do need to move to a different site format, what would you recommend for a simple template and/or host?<br> <br> 2. Photo storage: My thumbnail images, which Blogger creates, link to Flikr photos. However, the type in these larger images isn't fully readable until the user clicks a second time (after clicking on the thumbnail), to enlarge the image to full size. I’m afraid some readers won’t do this. Is there a good solution to this? Where should I store my photos (if not on Flikr)? <br> <br> 3. Photo size and format: What are standard image sizes? If I abandon the blog format and create a new HTML site, how should I go about creating all of the JPGs I will need (full size, thumbnail)? What is the standard size for full size images and thumbnails and what do you recommend for a naming convention? Would PDF format be preferable? If so, what software should I use to create my PDFs, are there any standards to these, and where can I store them?<br> <br> 4. Should I allow people to download my writing samples, either as JPG or PDFs?,2009:site.134663 Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:04:23 -0800 images jobhunter jobhunting jpg online pdf portfolio web website writer writing mintchip Extract Text and Images From a PDF I'd like to extract the text and images from a multi-page pdf to use on the web. I've got a number of large (100 to 200 pages) PDFs that I need to extract the text and images from to use with a CMS for a website. I've looked at a number of PDF to HTML software options, but they all seem to rely on CSS for positioning text, whereas I'd prefer to just have the text in simple paragraph format. If there's a PDF to HTML solution that doesn't format like this, I'd be interested in that, of course. Proper handling of tables would be quite beneficial.<br> <br> The way Acrobat extracts text is decent, but I'd prefer it if there were no line breaks for individual paragraphs (although I could probably setup a PHP script to run through and fix that if it's my only option). As for the images, it'd be great if I had control over how they were saved. In a folder called PDF_NAME/PAGE_1 for example for all the page 1 images. At the very least I need to know which page they were extracted from, either by the folder or filename.<br> <br> I also know I can extract images from a PDF using Photoshop, but unless there's a way to bulk extract images and store them in the format mentioned above, I don't think the solution will really work.<br> <br> I'm running Windows XP, but a solution that works with Linux (Ubuntu) would be fine. If there's an absolutely amazing piece of software for OS X, I'd be inclined to find a system I could use to run it. I'm also open to any web-based solutions (maybe I could use PHP for such a task?).,2008:site.100327 Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:11:56 -0800 conversion convert extract html images pdf text backwards guitar Exporting vector graphics for large-format PDF printing I have a vector-based image I have created in Inkscape. I will be printing it in a very large format - 3" x 4", - and my printer wants the image to be supplied as PDF. What do I need to do to export a PDF that will be of sufficient quality for printing? I have a very simple b&amp;w vector image in Inkscape - just a line of text and two clip-art ornaments. (It saves by default as a .svg)<br> <br> I need to bring a PDF to the printers but as it will be printed very very big, I'm nervous about quality. If I do a vanilla "Save as... PDF via Cairo" in Inkscape, will the resulting PDF be okay for printing at very large scale? Do I need to do anything else to prepare the image for biggification? Since it's a vector graphic I <i>hoped</i> that it would scale without problems. <br> <br> (When I save as PDF as above, the resulting file is just 28 kb, which is what's spooked me. I also have to check the "Convert text to paths" box for the font to look right.)<br> <br> I am computer-savvy but know zilch about graphics (CMYK, what?), so please dumb down yr answers if possible. Oh, and I'm on a iBook/OS 10.4.,2008:site.93430 Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:07:09 -0800 export images inkscape largeformat largescale pdf svg vector Marquis How to automatically extract graphical content from PDFs? Are there any software packages or toolkits (preferably open source) available that allow me to automatically extract graphical content (such as pictures, diagrams, graphs, etc.) from batches of PDFs? I'm working on a Grad school project where I would like to automatically extract any graphical content from batches of PDFs.<br> By graphical content, I mean pictures, graphs, diagrams... anything that's visual and not part of the full text.<br> <br> I would also like to be able to automatically extract any captions that a picture would have, and perhaps the surrounding text... say half a page before and after the occurrence of the picture.<br> <br> I'm trying to build a set of pictures from a large batch PDFs, and classify/tag them based on the content of the captions or nearby text.<br> <br> Thanks for any help!,2007:site.62280 Wed, 09 May 2007 13:33:11 -0800 automatic captions diagrams extract images PDF software text elbaso Is there any way to remove background images from a PDF file? Is there any way to remove background images from a PDF file? I downloaded some documentation for the Mambo Server, and it has an incredibly annoying, large, pixelated orangeish logo as a BG on every page, which doesn't help readability one bit. Have tried inserting a new white background in Acrobat, but it ends up behind the original one.,2004:site.7499 Tue, 25 May 2004 12:41:44 -0800 acrobat adobe background images pdf signal