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Created February 1, 2012 17:56
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Generate thumbnails of PDF files
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pdf-thumbnail.sh
#!/bin/sh
for file in "$@"; do
outfile="${file%%.pdf}.jpg"
echo "Thumbnailing $file to $outfile"
convert -resize 300 "$file[0]" "$outfile"
done
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This script creates JPEG thumbnails of PDF files using ImageMagick. Just pass the PDF files on the command line, and it will thumbnail them to corresponding .jpg files:

$ /bin/sh pdf-thumbnail.sh *.pdf

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