I'm the volunteer webmaster for my son's soccer club: Blitz United Soccer Club. We occasionally get logos and such from sponsors. We want jpeg images for the website and they want high quality pdf for printing. Until now, I've simply asked them for the images in a format we can handle.

I got tired of doing that and googled 'pdf to jpg'. There were a lot of hits of sites that either wanted to install to my windows box or get an email address. I added 'linux' to my search parameter and found a nice hit: Batch converting PDF to JPG/JPEG using free software.

Having heard of ImageMagick vaguely in the past, and since they had many download sites, I installed it on my WinXP desktop. And it didn't convert for me:

C:\Documents and Settings\thud\Desktop\Downloads\97red>convert cooper.pdf cooper.jpg
convert: `%s': %s "gswin32c.exe" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -d NOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dEPSCrop -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=pnmraw" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72"  "-sOutputFile=C:/DOCUME~1/thud/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-UtqkGDcw" "-fC:/DOCUME~1/thud/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-MpE4YxWI" "-fC:/DOCUME~1/thud/LOCALS~1/Temp/magick-z6ByBicB".
convert: Postscript delegate failed `cooper.pdf': No such file or directory.
convert: missing an image filename `cooper.jpg'.

Well, I solved that fairly quickly by:

[thud@adept ~/tmp]> sudo yum install ImageMagick
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package ImageMagick-6.3.5.9-1.fc8.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
[thud@adept ~/tmp]> convert -density 600 cooper.pdf cooper.jpg

Which is probably what I should have tried in the first place.