ImageMagick/Imagick convert PDF to JPG using native PHP API

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matt picture matt · Feb 26, 2009 · Viewed 25.1k times · Source

I’m attempting to convert PDF files into PNGs. It works great from the command line (I do have GhostScript 8.64 installed). But from PHP I’m having a problem:

code:

$im = new Imagick($pdf_file); // this is where it throws the exception below

output:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘ImagickException’ with message ‘Postscript delegate failed `23_1235606503.pdf’: No such file or directory @ pdf.c/ReadPDFImage/612′ in get_thumbnail.php:93
Stack trace:
\#0 get_thumbnail.php(93): Imagick->__construct(’…’)

etc. etc.

I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but I suspect it has something to do with my server configuration somewhere. I'm running: Apache 2.2.11 PHP 5.2.8 ImageMagick 6.4.8-9 GhostScript 8.64

Answer

matt picture matt · Feb 26, 2009

Finally figured this out. The GhostScript executable (gs) wasn't in Apache's environment path. It was in /usr/local/bin. Though I tried several ways to add /usr/local/bin to the path, I did not succeed. I ended up putting a symlink for gs in the /usr/bin directory. Now everything works perfectly.

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