Tag Archives: graphics

Create PDF thumbnails using ImageMagick on Linux 7

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 [...]

Drawing on your Desktop 5

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 [...]