Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

All,

We have Ghostscript previously installed for another purpose. (It is in a different folder than C:\Program Files\gs)

Now, I would like to use it for PDF to JPG Conversion with ImageMagick.

Is there a way to tell ImageMagick of the location of the previously installed Ghostscript?

Thanks,
Brad

fmw42,

Thanks for the assistance. I really appreciate it.

The " -density 288" parameter did the trick.

I am all smiles.

Thanks again,

Brad

All,

I am trying to convert a PDF file to a JPG file.

The conversion is working, but the generated JPG image is quite fuzzy.

I am using a “-quality 100” parameter.

Are there other ImageMagick parameters that I should be using to eliminate the fuzziness?

Thanks,
Brad

Anthony, Sorry, I should have spelled things out better. I am planning to call ImageMagick from a Microsoft Access application (VBA). The purpose of the call is to trim off excess white space from images. I have the call from Access set up and working. This will be part of an unattended automated pr...

Bonzo, I was hoping to use ImageMagick as part of an "unattended" process that runs at night. Part of this larger process will be to trim down serveral generated images to a better size. In your post, you mention that you get either a 0 or a 1. This sounds like exactly what I am looking fo...

I just started experimenting with ImageMagick. I am curious if there is an easy way to programmatically discern if an operation worked properly or not. Is these a status field available after an ImageMagick command is processed? I have read a bit about logging and debug, but I don't quite understand...

Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.

I now have a working example of what I am trying to do.

Brad

I just started working with Imagemagick today. I understand some of the basics and I have run some successful tests. However, I have not yet figured out things for the main reason that I am working with Imagemagick. I have a large number of jpg files that are being generated by a purchased software ...