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  • June 13, 2018
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I have a collection of as built drawings stored as PDF’s and wanted to automate the creation of image files being used as thumbnails in a web application. I was wondering if anyone has done this before. I am currently using the Workbench 2018 PDF reader and attempting to rasterize using either ImageRasterizer or MapnikRasterizer.

Best answer by debbiatsafe

Hi @lopes8

You can enable Read Rasterized Page parameter (Non-Spatial section) of the PDF reader parameters dialog which will render an image of each page and produce it as a raster feature (documentation here). You should be able to skip the ImageRasterizer or MapnikRasterizer if you use this parameter.

I hope this helps.

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Hi @lopes8

You can enable Read Rasterized Page parameter (Non-Spatial section) of the PDF reader parameters dialog which will render an image of each page and produce it as a raster feature (documentation here). You should be able to skip the ImageRasterizer or MapnikRasterizer if you use this parameter.

I hope this helps.


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  • June 13, 2018

Hi @lopes8

You can enable Read Rasterized Page parameter (Non-Spatial section) of the PDF reader parameters dialog which will render an image of each page and produce it as a raster feature (documentation here). You should be able to skip the ImageRasterizer or MapnikRasterizer if you use this parameter.

I hope this helps.

Hi @DebbiAtSafe

 

Thanks so much, this did the trick!

hlouie
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  • August 12, 2020

I was following the instructions above, Thanks to Chis at Safe identifying my missing step


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  • February 21, 2024

Hello,

 

I continue to have trouble converting PDFs to JPGs!  I have followed the instruction above but still get error on the writer.

 JPEG writer: This format cannot support more than 3 bands.  Please remove the extra bands and try again
JPEG writer: An error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details

 

How do I find out the number of Bands as they pertain to ImageRasterizer’s Raster Properties Number of Columns and Number of Rows??  Or is there another way??

 

Thx

Brian