Hi Michael Just a thought, but Google suggests that there are tools that can extract images from PDFs automatically. For example:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=extract+images+from+pdf It may be worth giving them a try, Best wishes Jeremy. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Michael Wiktowy <mwikt...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Monday, March 16, 2015 at 1:28:54 PM UTC-4, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> Hi Michael >> >> I can confirm that visiting tiddlywiki.com/ and changing the MIME type >> of Motovun Jack.jpg to "image/png" doesn't prevent the image from >> displaying. But it's not anything special that TiddlyWiki is doing; I think >> it is just that browsers in practice ignore the MIME type of images, and >> instead sniff the content. >> > > I figured as much. > > >> It sounds like compressing the images to JPG will get your file size down >> considerably. That kind of bulk operation is a bit easier under Node.js, >> but even in the browser you should be able to experiment with a few images. >> > > I am currently getting the images by copy+pasting right out of the 5MB > PDF. So I am a little bit confused as to how the files are ballooning in > size in just the copying operation. Still investigating but I am stating to > think it is not anything TiddlyWiki is doing. It is likely Adobe Reader > copying a pre-expanded, resized image to the clipboard and when I am > pasting that into TiddlyWiki, it is not getting the tiny source file but > some file data that has been through several layers of reinterpretation. I > need to find a way to dissect the PDF with the tools that I have at work. > > Thanks for the info. > /Mike > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:jeremy.rus...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
