Bug#1050005: ITP: pdftopng -- Convert PDF to PNG

[Mathieu Malaterre <malat@debian.org>]

On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 1:19 PM Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org> wrote:
>
> * Elena Grandi <valhalla@debian.org> [230818 05:27]:
> > Package: wnpp
> > Severity: wishlist
> > Owner: Elena Grandi <valhalla@debian.org>
> >
> > * Package name    : pdftopng
> >   Description     : Convert PDF to PNG
> >
> > A command line tool and python library to convert PDFs to PNGs, based on
> > pdftoppm from poppler.

uh ?

% pdftoppm -h 2>&1| grep png
  -png                                     : generate a PNG file

> > This is a dependency of camelot-py (#1049944) and I intend to maintain
> > it in the Python Team.
>
> Does pdftocairo from the poppler-utils package do what you need?  If
> not, would it make sense to submit patches to add pdftopng to the
> poppler-utils package instead of creating a separate package for it?

...or at least document why pdftoppm is not suitable.