I hate PDFs! I hate opening the viewer and sitting there, waiting for it to load, then dealing with the pop up asking me to update my software. I wish they were like regular text files or images, and not some twisted mutant hybrid of both with all the shortcomings from each side! So… now I just convert PDF’s to JPEG images!!! I love ImageMagick. It’s just so freaking useful… and free.

Here’s a very simple script to convert PDF’s to JPG’s:

For those of you still loading your digital camera’s images into MSPAINT or paying hard earned $$$ for some crappy program just to shrink the size and quality to get normal file sizes that display easily and upload faster to your favorite photo sites: Do it in 3 seconds in cygwin, andlinux, or native linux!!!