Can I use preview to export multiple page PDF as jpegs?

mackarsen wrote:

Can I use preview to export multiple page PDF as jpeg for every page?

Use Automator:

Thank YOU!!!!!!

Automator is great for this if you need to export many pages to JPG, or just have to do this often.

Two other quick and dirty way sto get it done:

(1) Enable thumbnail view, click on the ONE PAGE you want to convert to jpg, then choose "export." If you choose more than one page, only the first will get exported to jpg.

(2) Create a copy of the file, delete all the pages except the one you want to export to JPG, and export that page. You may be able to "undo" the delete, get all your pages back again, and re-delete all but the one you want to export, etc. I would not recommend doing this on the original version of the file because of Preview's autosave so-called "feature."

I find Aitomator unecessarily complicated, and unfortunately the thumbnails suggestion by tenders only exported the first page, no matter which thumbnail was selected.

But I found that Print > PDF > Save PDT To Folder As JPEG worked well enough.

Thank you @Tony T1

Registered myself on discussions.apple.com only to reply to you!

Was converting a long PDF doc to images and was unable to find anything to automate it.

And I never had tried automator, nor did I ever know that such a powerful thing existed on my machine.

Thanks for the screenshots. Made my day.

Cheers

Tanay

Tony - i've struggled to use Automator in the past but this example has not only solved my problem of wanting to print a multi-page PDF as individual JPEGs, it has also introduced me to Automator!! THANK YOU!!! 🙂

The images are in $TMPDIR.

You need to add the Move Finder Items Action to move them to the Desktop (or a Folder of your choice)

I found that the Graphic Converter app did this job really neatly: GraphicConverter on the Mac App Store

You can use the free trial, no need to pay if you are only using it a few times.

Once you have the app on your Mac, go to edit > convert & modify - then use the interface to pick your PDF and convert it to images.

I'm getting the same problem. Bizarrely, maybe pre 10.7 I didn't have this problem, but now I can't find a way round it...

I'm having the exact same problem as well. Lion has so many things broken that I'm one issue away from trashing everything and getting back to SL...

Hi Tony! I'm having difficulty following your steps even though they are clear. I'm just not the greatest at this... Anyway I have a 71 page pdf in preview I would like to turn into JPEGs. I was able to add "pdf to jpg" in Automater but can't locate where the file goes or what its name is. Can you assist me in that?

hi! can you help me with Automator? I can open the application but that's about it. Trying to convert multi-page PDF to JPEG.... Thanks so much!

...also, you can save the Automator App as a PDF printing option

(select Edit Menu and the +):

(Delete the 1st Action to Ask for Finder Items)

If it's not standard, I don't know how it got there, but...

Edit: The proper way to add to the print menu is to:

1) Open Automator and select "Print Plugin"

2) Then in Automator select "RenderPDF Pages as Images" and "Move Finder Items"

3) Save