Do you have an example of the PDF you’re trying to open? Is it a multi page document?

A link to the PDF would be helpful, but it sounds like GIMP is giving you the opportunity to open a range of pages, that is, a sequence of adjacent pages.

Hope this helps. Rick

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On Oct 25, 2019, at 8:19 AM, Pansmanser wrote:

When a pdf is opened in gimp, there is the opportunity to select a range. Does this load just a part of the pdf page? If so, how is the range specified? Or maybe it loads certain pages?

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On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 17:00 +0200, Pansmanser wrote:

I have convinced myself that it is referring to a range of pages.

Yes.

As such,
probably useful, but not what I had in mind.

What did you have in mind exactly?

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On 10/25/19 11:35 PM, Pansmanser wrote:

What did you have in mind exactly?

I thought I could display part of the page, perhaps with top left and bottom right coordinates.

I've used a different method now.

A common approach would be to load the entire PDF file (all or some pages of it) in the resolution you want, and then crop it to the parts you want.

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On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 11:09 +0200, Pansmanser wrote:

Sure, and that was my approach to date. I was going to try to automate this for
a repetitive task with something I download from the web and crop before saving
it.

imagemagick (or netpbm on Linux) can automate this. The croping, if to a fixed size, could also be scripted.