Re: Can GD make a JPG thumbnail of a PDF?

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:59 PM, Stephen Johnson <maillists@thelonecoder.com > wrote: > I think you want something like this : > exec("convert -density 360x360 -enhance $pdfFile $pdfFile.gif"); Yes, that's how i did it here. Didn't find a better solution yet. Was looking at the php module for imagemagick (imagick i believe), but that seemed not quite there yet for deployment. Please advise if someone got that working. Would prefer this over a shellexecute. You will need to install imagemagick and i believe you also need ghostscript for this to work. You can get both for linux and windows, free. On debian and ubuntu and such: apt-get install imagemagick gs > > > > 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 > > 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. > > > > -- > Stephen Johnson > The Lone Coder > > http://www.ouradoptionblog.com > *Join us on our adoption journey* > > stephen@thelonecoder.com > http://www.thelonecoder.com > > *Continuing the struggle against bad code* > -- > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Tim-Hinnerk Heuer http://www.ihostnz.com