filehugger.comThe exact steps
- Render each page at 150 DPI → JPG 80%
One JPG per page, named by page number; ZIP download for multi-page files.
Why this chain
For slides, previews and chat, 150 DPI reads crisply on any screen at a fraction of print-grade weight — our Labs measurement puts the 300 DPI bill at roughly 2.7× more bytes for no on-screen benefit.
Doing it without the recipe
The same conversion with the settings exposed is PDF to JPG, where you pick the resolution and the page range yourself. This recipe is that tool with the two decisions already made — 150 DPI and JPEG at 80% — because those are the numbers our own DPI measurement landed on for anything that will be looked at on a screen rather than printed.
When this chain is the right one
Use it when a PDF has to go somewhere that will not display a PDF: a chat thread, a slide, a marketplace listing, a CMS that only takes images, a social post. Do not use it to make a document smaller — rendering a PDF to pictures usually makes it considerably larger, because a page of text is a few kilobytes of instructions and a picture of that page is not. If size is the problem, Compress PDF is the tool. And do not use it for anything anyone needs to search, copy from or read with a screen reader: images of pages have no text in them at all.
Honest limits
Rendered pages contain no selectable text, and images of a PDF are typically far larger than the PDF itself — this is for when the destination genuinely needs pictures.