Two program recommendations, please ? :)

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By Oliver (AKA the Admin) on 14 comments
in Categories: Just Talking

Hi everyone :)

Could I ask you for some program recommendations, possibly ?

– I have a folder with lots of PDFs, these PDFs were made from scanned images in damn high res, above 3000px. I’d like to resize the images composing the PDF to only 1600 px. And this is all there is to these files, these PDFs are only composed, internally, of high res pictures, all of them of the same dimensions.
Is there a program that would accept to resize these images, so that it takes less place on the disk ?

– One of my relatives plans to convert all of ther CD collection to mp3, and she’s asking me for a program that I could recommend her for this task.
Personally, I use CDex, but I feel that program’s not newbie-friendly enough, while my relative isn’t too at ease with computers : she needs a program that handles practically everything for her (including fetching a remote DB for track names and all, for instance) and is easy to handle.
If you know a program like that, for Windows, I’d be grateful too :)

EDIT : I’m starting to look up the recommendations that were given, thank you guys !
However, a note, and an important one at that because help requests is something you’ll read your whole digital life : when you are asked newbie-friendly recommendations don’t go recommending complicated technical stuff, lol. Seriously, when I wrote my friend needed an easy program that would handle everything for her, suggesting to use EAC, for heaven’s sake ?!? :D

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Spike
Spike
10 years ago

For the Second problem your relative could use Winamp, ITunes or just the Windows Media Player. Though I recommend WinAmp, the other ones should do the trick, too.

Anon
Anon
10 years ago

GIMP can batch resize your pdf’s. http://www.gimp.org/

sodor
sodor
10 years ago

I would use Ghostscript for the resizing, because it handles pdfs etc. really well. Additionally you could script it in a shell / bat script to convert all pdfs that you have.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14989959/how-t

http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Devices.htm

igndenok
igndenok
10 years ago

As for 2nd problem, I use EAC (Exact Audio Copy), there’s a guide at hydrogenaudio.org. But you need additional application like LAME (for MP3), NeroAAC (for AAC), etc. to use with EAC.

Ambal
Ambal
10 years ago
originalBlueSin
originalBlueSin
10 years ago

For the 1st question. You can use Nitro PDF to extract image from PDF file It also can customize output file. Or just for resize i use Faststone image viewer, It has tool for batch resize. http://www.nitropdf.com/

for audio Cd rip i use audacity. http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

amir
amir
10 years ago

sasiest way to extract a audio cd to mp3 : Kingdia CD Extractor v3.7.0
here my own uploaded file in mediafire server : http://www.mediafire.com/download/31ah1b2u71s442c

luris
luris
10 years ago

Windows Media Player est vraiment simple et fourni avec Windows. Il faut juste changer une option (je ne sais plus où mais c'est facile à trouver) pour avoir les fichiers en .MP3 et non en .WMA
Par contre, il faudra renommer les fichiers un par un

WES
WES
10 years ago

For question 2

DVD video soft is by FAR the easiest conversion program out here and it is free. Download it and try at and i promise you wont regret it.
http://www.dvdvideosoft.com/

harkosh
harkosh
10 years ago

Je confirme le windows media player de W7 fait l affaire. extraction aux format et qualité souhaités et tag automatique (modifiable si il se plante, en choisissant le bon album)

Passerby
Passerby
10 years ago

I recommend foobar2k. Its pretty easy to use. You will need lame.exe, which you can get here: http://www.rarewares.org/mp3-lame-bundle.php to convert to mp3. And: http://www.foobar2000.org/encoderpack to convert to other. Theres a guide on how to do this here: http://wiki.hydrogenaudio.org/index.php?title=Foo

Alternatively use EAC.

htw
htw
10 years ago

Actually EAC is a very newbie friendly program.

Once you have setup the program, all she needs to do is just click the button (largely labelled too!) that says MP3.

You can teach her to get the cd info from the cddb.

SL-Gundam
SL-Gundam
10 years ago

I personally like Winamp but that might not be friendly enough… Maybe Window Media Player?