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[FlexibleLearning at aol.com]

> Hi all,
>How can I make a pdf thumbnail of my pdf documents, or  just
> convert say 1st page of the pdf doc to a jpeg picture, and use it  to 
> link?
 
Bassam wrote:
>View it on your computer screen and take a  screenshot.  Load that into 
>a painting program, crop out the part  you need, scale it to the right 
>size, and save it as a  JPEG.
>
>Repeat for each document.
>
>Perhaps this could be automated more easily using either Rev or  
>AppleScript?  Anyone?

iView is very versatile freeware  program that with batch process resizing as 
above. Writing a looping script  to set filename of img, scale, and export 
jpeg is a role-your own option,  of course.
 
/H