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In Preview, you can export a PDF as PNGs. How do you have these as separate images that you can then use? I have a 100 page PDF. I would like 100 individual PNGs, but Preview is just creating a single file with 100 pages of PNGs, not 100 PNG files (like you would get when exporting with Adobe or PPT).
Thanks!
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
You can do this easily with Automator. Maybe there is already a Quick Action you can use, otherwise here is how you create one:
1) Open Automator, and choose Quick Action
Make it like this:
Save it - as, say "PDF Pages as PNG"
2) Then all you have to do is control-click a pdf file in the Finder, and choose Quick Actions->PDF Pages as PNG
In your desktop, you will find a folder called Result, with your numbered pages in PNG format.
You can do this easily with Automator. Maybe there is already a Quick Action you can use, otherwise here is how you create one:
1) Open Automator, and choose Quick Action
Make it like this:
Save it - as, say "PDF Pages as PNG"
2) Then all you have to do is control-click a pdf file in the Finder, and choose Quick Actions->PDF Pages as PNG
In your desktop, you will find a folder called Result, with your numbered pages in PNG format.
Preview cannot automatically export 100 separate PNG images from a 100-page PDF. You must select the each PDF page thumbnail, and individually export that PDF page as a PNG.
The optionally installed Ghostscript or ImageMagick solutions can generate sequentially numbered PNG output from that PDF, but nothing from the macOS installation other than a programmatic solution using CoreGraphics framework in either Swift, Objective-C, or PyObjC.
An alternate to Luis' method (try his first):
There are online websites which will generate a separate image for each page (usually JPG but perhaps also PNG). For smaller PDF files, it is possible to generate separate PNGs by cutting a pasting PDF pages and then exporting to PNG.
- Pie Lover
It'll do this:
The demo pdf had 196 pages so took a while to complete.
Strangely enough, I forgot an Automator solution as others have provided. Time for some more dark roast.
Preview - Export as Separate PNGs
