Multipage PDF to TIFF result in wide pages with empty space

Question

I have a multipage PDF file (which seems to have been created by Illustrator CS3 using Adobe PDF Library 8.0), which I want to convert to TIFF G3 using ImageMagick 6.8.6. Here is the result of the conversion convert a1.pdf a1.tif (I painted it red to hide details)

As you can see, in each page I get a wide page (as wide as 4 pages) and the actual image of each page is gradually shifted to the left, page-by-page.

This is the PDF info:

>identify a1.pdf
a1.pdf[0] PDF 3402x1134 3402x1134+0+0 16-bit sRGB 11.57MB 0.063u 0:00.062
a1.pdf[1] PDF 3402x1134 3402x1134+0+0 16-bit sRGB 11.57MB 0.047u 0:00.061
a1.pdf[2] PDF 3402x1134 3402x1134+0+0 16-bit sRGB 11.57MB 0.031u 0:00.046
a1.pdf[3] PDF 3402x1134 3402x1134+0+0 16-bit sRGB 11.57MB 0.016u 0:00.031

I tried to convert to .jpg, .png but I get the same behavior. I also tried ghostscript, the result is the same (obviously, as IM uses GS for PDF).

Any ideas?

Thank you

Answer 1

it's hard to tell without a sample file. You may try other convertors and compare. Just type "pdf rasterizer" in google to find a bunch.