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Use ghostscript to convert PDF to progressive JPEG for web use?

I am using Ghostscript on the command line to extract PDF pages as JPEGs.

Is there any switch that I can set in the command to make them progressive JPEGs or do I need to pipe it through ImageMagick or similar?

Solution

  • You can't create a progressive JPEG with Ghostscript, it doesn't support that. You will have to use some other tool to do that, I suspect your best bet is to create a TIFF and have ImageMagick convert it.