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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by slowenough on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:18PM (#21546633)
My experience is relatively small.

The `convert` script of ImageMagick calls soffice by default if the input file is a LibreOffice type.

I actually started writing a shell script to detect if it was DOCX etc, and run soffice first, but then I found out that ImageMagick does that automatically, if libreoffice is installed.

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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by marcus_holmes on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:22PM (#21546678)
hmm, OK, I didn't know that. Thanks that's useful :)

Be interesting to see how your demo site holds up under HN front page traffic - I know Imagemagic is used a lot for random web sites, but I worry about scale a lot. Any info would be useful!

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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by slowenough on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:28PM (#21546750)
no probs. if you want to email me I can let you know once it all quiets down.
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Re:Show HN: Simple PDF to PNG Server by marcus_holmes on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:31PM (#21546787)
sent :)
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