The default Preview application on Mac OS X 10.x is the best/safest option to open PDFs natively. OS X even includes functionality that lets you insert/remove pages from a PDF and do some other limited editing. But it doesn’t permit saving PDFs as image, neither with the free Adobe Reader, only a dedicated Mac PDF to BMP Converter if you need extract PDF content and save as images.

Why convert a PDF document to a image format(e.g. BMP)? BMP graphics image format can be used in word processing, presentation, and desktop publishing software while PDFs can’t.

Mac PDF to BMP Converter is a simple utility program for Mac OS X Snow Leopard to extract/convert from Adobe PDF files to BMP image format for use in other applications. Using this software, you can generate a bitmap image while preserving the page layout. Also, the program can support you to convert PDF to PNG, JPEG and more image formats.

PDF to BMP Converter For Mac give options to customize the output BMP image format, and the users will have immediate feedback about how their BMP format image will look like.

Note: BMP file stands for Bitmap Image File and is an uncompressed image made up of a grid of pixels of alternating colors.

Here are how you can convert PDF document format into image BMP format on Mac OS X

Step 0: Download Mac PDF to BMP Converter program, install and run it on Mac OS X

Step 1: Load PDF document to the converter

Click "Add Files", then locate and select your PDF, Mac PDF to BMP Converter allows you to add multiple PDF files to convert each time.

Step 2: Customize output settings

1. Click on the gear icon on the selected PDF file in the panel, then you are allowed to customize page range for the PDF files to convert. Default page range for conversion is All pages. 2. Select the folder you want to save all of your BMP files in.

Step 3: Choose the BMP format from the conversion mode that appears

Step 4: Start the conversion from PDF document to BMP image

After customizing the output settings, click the big Convert button to convert PDF to BMP image..

Now you have converted your PDF files to BMP image, you can easily use the BMPs in other applications right away! Feel free to download the Mac PDF to BMP Converter and have a try yourself.

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