Multipage PDF to PNG sometimes shows incomplete image

[Anja]

Hi,
I seem to run in to an issue when converting a pdf file that has pages in both portrait and landscape orientation. All pages are converted as portrait, so some pages are cut off.
This is the command i usually use:
nconvert -dpi 300 -out png -merge_alpha -o outputpath\out.png -xall

Is there a way to get the orientation right for each page?

Thanks in advance

[cday]

I seem to run in to an issue when converting a pdf file that has pages in both portrait and landscape orientation. All pages are converted as portrait, so some pages are cut off.
This is the command i usually use:

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nconvert  -dpi 300 -out png -merge_alpha -o outputpath\out.png -xall

Is there a way to get the orientation right for each page?

I don't have a problem using this code with the attached test file I created:

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nconvert -dpi 300 -out png -merge_alpha -o test.png -xall *.pdf

Can you upload a file that has the problem (2MiB maximum the current forum limit)?

PDF_Mixed_Orientation.pdf

[cday]

Further:

Which version of NConvert are you using, and which version of Ghostscript do you have installed?

NConvert 32-bit requires Ghostscript 32-bit installed (even on 64-bit operating systems...).

Nconvert 64-bit requires Ghostscript 64-bit installed.

I have a vague recollection of a report of a possibly similar problem to the one you describe several years ago, when the wrong version of Ghostscript was installed...

[Anja]

https://send.firefox.com/download/f4875 ... 6V1s7Wx3MA

The file I have an issue with is just over the limit, I hope you can get it here.

I'm using the 32 bit version (v2.36) with Ghostscript 32 bit

[cday]

I can reproduce, your file opens normally in Adobe Acrobat, but when the pages are extracted using an NConvert script, only the left-half of landscape orientation pages is displayed...

Googling the GS error displayed for some pages "ERROR: -101" produces this hit:

[gs-bugs] [Bug 695848] New: Ghostscript decode error when opening PDF

You might like to Google the error code yourself, as the above bug report was only tentative.

I may be able to have another look later in the day, but if anyone has a solution it will probably be XnTriq much later today...

[XnTriq]

I have a vague recollection of a report of a possibly similar problem to the one you describe several years ago, when the wrong version of Ghostscript was installed...

I've found quite a few topics discussing the issue, …

• Convert each page of a PDF to an image
• PDF to JPEG. Need it in Landscape.
• Multipages pdf to multipages tiff
• Converting PDF to TIFF and losing orientation

… but as far ar I can tell, there's no solution.

[Anja]

I seem to have run in to some other files which seem to suffer from the same issue.
In this case however, all the pages in the pdf do have the same orientation (landscape). When converting to png, the first one is ok, but all of the following pages are put in portrait, so almost half of the image is cut off. I'd add the file, but it's quite large.

So first one's a winner, get the file here:
https://send.firefox.com/download/4955b ... 9xwTTdZZTw

Out of curiosity, I let the Microsoft Print to PDF have a try. Opening the resulting pdf, no information is lost but all pages are rotated to portrait. Then converting that file works as it should.