Hey Hey,

So as some of you know I've been doing a lot of php lately... I work for a marketing company and the end result will be an image library (completely custom) for a client... I was told I was working with JPGs and occasionally a Tif.... which is fine... I've just been informed that we're actually working with PDFs....

I'm basically looking for a way to convert the PDFs into JPGs or PNGs (which apparently ImageMagick's convert will do... however every time I've ran it I've crashed my dev. server)... I've found bulk conversion programs which would work just as well.... However they don't eliminate the white space..... Think a fully 8.5x11 page with about a 1x1 image on it... and all I want is that 1x1 image.

I've got a couple servers available to me for this.... FreeBSD and Windows 2000 are the ones that I was hoping to use in production (primarily the FreeBSD but I don't seem to be able to call convert on it)...

The other option is an inhouse debian server (my testbed) but then we're restricted to our DSL connection...

Anyways... anyone have any ideas or suggestions.... spending a bit of money won't be a problem... but yeah... I'm outta ideas.

Peace,
HT