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How to get better results with ImageMagick and convert

How to get better results with ImageMagick and convert

In last two days I’m trying to find best way to convert PDF files to good quality JPEG files. Of course size does matter, not only in case of women breasts.

When I was trying to convert files directly from PDF to JPEG results was pretty scary:

convert myfile.pdf[1] dc.jpg

number 1 in brackets means only one(second) page to process.
As I result I get file with pretty huge size: 496.8K
but… if we do this in two steps:

Drupal and lighttpd mod_rewrite settings

Drupal and lighttpd mod_rewrite settings

Lighttpd is awesome and very fast webserver. But has one big disadvantage – is not reading apache .htaccess files with rewrite settings. Unfortunatley you need to create them manually in config file. How? Examples are below: