From ede79273e085424e69a809208e16fa2d0d6afed0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: KemoNine Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 14:43:12 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add note about krita being able to natively import pdf files --- Notes/Convert PDF Coloring Pages.md | 8 ++++++++ Notes/Extract Images From PDF.md | 8 ++++++++ 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/Notes/Convert PDF Coloring Pages.md b/Notes/Convert PDF Coloring Pages.md index 8b80fd0..d33ca58 100644 --- a/Notes/Convert PDF Coloring Pages.md +++ b/Notes/Convert PDF Coloring Pages.md @@ -5,6 +5,14 @@ created_at: "2023-02-17" source: "KemoNine Blog" --- +## Important Note + +Krita can natively import PDFs with each page as a layer. You can simply open the PDF within Krita and then cut/copy/paste each later into a new image as appropriate or work with them as a single image. + +The above approch with Krita can be significantly easier and less fiddly than the below. + +## The original blog post... + If you have access to `imagemagick` you can quickly convert a PDF coloring page(s) to grayscale PNG using the below procedure and notes. diff --git a/Notes/Extract Images From PDF.md b/Notes/Extract Images From PDF.md index deae03d..32d45fb 100644 --- a/Notes/Extract Images From PDF.md +++ b/Notes/Extract Images From PDF.md @@ -6,6 +6,14 @@ source: N/A --- +## Important Note + +Krita can natively import PDFs with each page as a layer. You can simply open the PDF within Krita and then cut/copy/paste each later into a new image as appropriate or work with them as a single image. + +The above approch with Krita can be significantly easier and less fiddly than the below. + +## Extraction + - Use [pdfcpu](https://github.com/pdfcpu/pdfcpu) - See command line options - `extract -m image` is a good choice \ No newline at end of file