Re: Can GD make a JPG thumbnail of a PDF?
| From: | Stephen Johnson | Date: | Thu, 11 Dec 2008 00:59:11 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Can GD make a JPG thumbnail of a PDF? | ||
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I think you want something like this :
exec("convert -density 360x360 -enhance $pdfFile $pdfFile.gif");
On 12/10/08 4:48 PM, "Brian Dunning" <brian@briandunning.com> wrote:
> I've spent most of the last week trying to get ImageMagick working on
> my Windows PHP installation. I gather that since I'm going to be
> converting PDFs to JPEGs, I need Ghostscript.
>
> Well, I've got ImageMagick installed: http://printhq2.com/info.php«0
> Þ,Ç’ÖÆ¡<ƒ¶
> I ran a Ghostscript installer, but it didn't seem to do very much.
>
> Some site advised me to test my installation like this:
> <?php
> echo "<pre>";
> system("convert -version");
> echo "</pre>";
> ?>
> But it just returns blank. Can anyone help me get ImageMagick working
> on my server?
>
>
> On Nov 20, 2008, at 4:41 PM, Stephen Johnson wrote:
>
>> No but you can use imagemagicks convert to convert the pdf to an
>> image and
>> then make a thumbnail of it.
>
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