I have a bunch of PDF files for which I wanted to generate thumbnails. On looking around a bit, I found “ImageMagick“. Since I have Ubuntu installed, I did

sudo apt-get install imagemagick

It is not too big a download at around 740KB.
To create a thumbnails for all pages in the PDF document (say test.pdf which has […]

This is related to the previous post and is meant in part to demonstrate how great Linux is for doing “weird” stuff :). This is what we are
trying to do.

The circles in the background have been drawn by the python script below. To get the script running you should have python and pygame installed. […]