You may decide that you want to convert image files from PDF to JPEG format. Before you convert your files, you may ask yourself: Why convert to the JPEG format? First of all, JPEG images are lossy. That means that digital images saved in the JPEG format can be compressed to save space. This gives you the ability to adjust the size of your image file. By making the file size of your image smaller, you can load and send your image much quicker. Of course, you give up some of the image quality when you save your file at a higher compression rate, but you can adjust the compression rate so that the reduced image quality is barely noticeable.
Another advantage to saving an image in the JPEG format is that JPEG files are now a widely used format. JPEG images are easily accessible. They can be opened by many applications. It’s pretty much a certainty that viewers of your web site will be able to view JPEG files in their web browser. If you need to send your image by email, the person receiving the image most likely will know how to handle a JPEG file. If your user owns a digital camera, he is familiar with the JPEG file format and can most likely take and store JPEG images.
Another possible reason to convert is that PDFs have certain limitations. One disadvantage is that the user often has to wait for Adobe Acrobat to load and open your PDF file before it is displayed. If you have a large file, this can take some time. Although Adobe’s Acrobat Reader is very ubiquitous these days, you still are dependent on your user having the Acrobat Reader installed on his computer to view your PDF file.
Another disadvantage to the PDF format is that your PDF file size may be large. This will make your file cumbersome to work with. It will take some time for the file to load on a web site or to be sent via email. This makes it advantageous to convert your file to the JPEG format.
If you have decided to convert your PDF file to a JPEG, how do you make the conversion? If you have very few files to convert, you can use a printer driver to do your conversion. However, if you have large quantity of files to convert, it will be very time consuming to convert your files individually using this method. A solution to this problem is to use an imaging toolkit, such as Snowbound Software’s imaging SDK, and write a simple application to perform the conversion. Snowbound’s imaging tools give users the ability to convert PDF to JPEG (document to image conversion) directly without using an external application or printer driver. For more information about Snowbound’s imaging applications, go to their web site at http://www.snowbound.com/image_conversion/pdf_to_jpeg.html.
For another point of view, read this article on the advantages of converting from the JPEG to PDF format: http://www.investintech.com/resources/articles/howconvertjpegtopdf/
- Patty
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