Converting PDF pages into pictures (OS X Mac)

So one thing I wanted to do recently was to have all the pages of a 20 page pdf file as individual picture files. But how to do this?

Well, I found information on this forum. Half way down gr8tfly says to:

1. load up the pdf file (i loaded in Preview)
2. File > Print
3. Click on PDF at the bottom left of the print dialogue box

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4. Select "Save PDF to iPhoto"
5. Click "Print"
6. Open up iPhoto
7. Eventually it'll load the pages in as pictures. You can drag these out of iPhoto and do whatever you want with them.

In theory, Save PDF to ......... should work, but for some reason it wouldn't ask me which folder to save it all in. Easier to work out with iPhoto.

Fixing iPhoto '11 library on "unsupported Volume"

I make a little application to fix all the little problems we have a the college, and one of the new problems which has come up is this iPhoto not supporting library's on non - hfs+ journaled volumes. If you load iPhoto and it either; detects your iPhoto Library needs updating, or it wants to create a new library, it will check the type of volume it is saved on.

A work around for this problem I posted here, which involves moving or creating an iPhoto Library on a HFS+ Journaled volume, letting iPhoto update it if it needs it. Then closing iPhoto, move the library to the volume you want it, double clicking it to load it up in iPhoto.

iPhoto only checks the volume in these two circumstances and does not (at the moment) check any other time. So once a library is updated then you will be able to use it forever afterwards with no error.

I wanted to create an Application which did this process for you. The exact process would be:

1. Ask the user whether or not to go ahead with the fix
2. look for the location of the iPhoto Library, or whether there is one
3. If there is one, move the current one to the Users/Shared folder
1. open iPhoto with this one so that iPhoto can update it
2. close iPhoto
3. move library to ~/Library/Pictures/
4. If there was not an old one, then copy a previously made one from secret place to ~/Library/Pictures/
5. Open iPhoto with this iPhoto Library or set this library as the default.

iPhoto '11 (version 9) library's volume is unsupported

After recently updating the OS and iLife to 10.6.6 and iLife '11 I've found that for networked users (using Active Directory hosted on Windows servers) this message appeared:

Error

The library could not be opened because the file system of the library's volume is unsupported

It became apparent that the new version of iPhoto does not support photo library's on this type of networked volume. I have now found it to encompass any type of volume which is not 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'.

I found quite a few postings on the subject, but most were concerned with NAS storage backup stuff, for which a few solutions were posted, but nothing relating to Active Directory windows servers stuff. But, at last, after a few more minutes I came across this post by PJ_AU down the bottom:

1. Simply double click on the iphoto library located in the Pictures folder.

This opens it up in iPhoto, and iPhoto does not check the volume it is on.

For new users:

1. 'Alt' click on the iPhoto icon in the dock (this opens iPhoto prompting for a library)
2. Create a new iPhoto Library on the local Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume
3. Close iPhoto
4. Move the Library to the networked (or unsupported) volume
5. Double click it to open it in iPhoto

From then on iPhoto does not check the volume the library is on. It ONLY checks the volume when creating or updating the iPhoto Library.