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In Italy we say "Ogni scarafone è bello a mamma sua", thet means "Any beatle is beautiful in the opinion of his mother" .

Please consider this when reading my scripts... catch the rough idea only, please don't consider them anything more!

Here my present version of python-nconvert routines:
import os
import Image

def opal(filepdf="test.pdf", pagine=10):

# a bat file for nconvert batch commands is opened
f=open("pyscript.bat","w")

# name of pdf is extracted
nome=filepdf.replace(".pdf","")

# a folder for images is created ...

I cant manage with nconvert pdf files from Internet Archive , here an example: Confessioni d'un scettico . It has been the first "large" pdf file I tried to convert, and I was thinking about a nconvert limitation, but then I tried Ghostscript and the problem was exactly the same: no reply from the ...

Another night has gone, I took a look to PIL (Python Imaging Library) which was deeply sleeping into my pc, and I see great perspectives merging PIL routines and Nconvert for mass pdf->images conversion. "Intelligent" cropping can be archived, probably, with PIL routines too. I presume, my previous ...

Here a sample of my second day of tries.

I've this pdf (here the first page) :
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_Rndfu1koDq4/Sd_Ctp4WIYI/AAAAAAAAHk4/Z3UWBVr3rF8/s400/opal-x.jpg
As you see, any pdf page contains two pages of a book; the book has 90 pages. My problem is, to convert this pdf into a set of ...

I downloaded nconvert from two days, my first look to "help" gave me the neat feel that it has been written in old chinese, but at a fourth-fifth look I understood something. I know by experience that this is pretty common dealing with a new application. :wink:

My goal was, to control into any ...

As I see, there's no specific board for self-introduction of new members, but I appreciate self introduction of new members into the forums where I'm am admin, so here I am.

I'm not a programmer, but I like programming a bit from some decades (my first experiences were in 1975-76...) . Presently I ...