php Imagemagick jpg black background

Question

I have a php script to create jpg thumbnail of pdf as follows;

<?php
$file ="test.pdf";
$im = new imagick(realpath($file).'[0]');
$im->setImageFormat("jpg");
$im->resizeImage(200,200,1,0);
// start buffering
ob_start();
$thumbnail = $im->getImageBlob();
$contents =  ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo "<img src='data:image/jpg;base64,".base64_encode($thumbnail)."' />";
?>

But the resulting jpg have black background instead of white.. How can I fix this??

Answer 1

None of the previously posted answers worked for me however the below did:

$image = new Imagick;

$image->setResolution(300, 300);

$image->readImage("{$originalPath}[0]");

$image->setImageFormat('jpg');

$image->scaleImage(500, 500, true);

$image->setImageAlphaChannel(Imagick::VIRTUALPIXELMETHOD_WHITE);

As I'm using the Laravel framework I then take the converted image and store it using Laravels filesystem.

Storage::put($storePath, $image->getImageBlob());

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Update: So I recently changed OS and whereas this previously worked on my Ubuntu machine on my Mac certain images were still coming out black.

I had to change the script to the below:

$image = new Imagick;

$image->setResolution(300, 300);

$image->setBackgroundColor('white');

$image->readImage("{$originalPath}[0]");

$image->setImageFormat('jpg');

$image->scaleImage(500, 500, true);

$image->mergeImageLayers(Imagick::LAYERMETHOD_FLATTEN);

$image->setImageAlphaChannel(Imagick::ALPHACHANNEL_REMOVE);

Seems important to set the background colour before reading in the image. I also flatten any possible layers and remove the alpha channel. I feel like I tried ALPHACHANNEL_REMOVE on my Ubuntu machine and it didn't work so hopefully between these answers readers can find something that works for them.