Hey Hey,

Thanks for the advice everyone..

omin: It's actually proving to not be too resource intensive now... conversion without trim still corrupts the file... As for the PDFs being made... Our client has that done elsewhere, so unfortunately nothing can be done about that...

The timeline for the process (with the previous commands was

Browse to page -- 9 minutes pass -- image converted and displayed..

However the reason it was so resource intensive was because of the limited resources My p4 1.8 at work runs like **** (it's time for a reinstall but I have to find all the software I need first... still digging through boxes at work looking for some of it.. ) CoLinux (Debian) running on top of Windows XP on a 1.8 w/ 512MB of ram.. only 64 of which were dedicated to Debian..

I've since gotten all the software installed on our reseller account.. I've also moved from jpg to png.. they turn out well (no corruption) and less then 30 seconds per image with the command
convert test.pdf -trim test.png

Fanacool: Thanks but unfortunately i was looking for something bulk where I could just say eliminate white space and give me a jpg

Anyways I think the problem is solved (however imagemagick is core dumping on the server, so I have to figure out why and get that resolved.... then I"ll be laughing)

Peace,
HT