Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Hi all,
Is there a way to convert PDF files to JPG files with clipping paths using ImageMagick?

What is your IM version and platform? Post your PDF file so we can examine it.

ImageMagick 6.9.10-42 running on Red Hat 7.4

https://gofile.io/?c=JTWaw6

Your pdf has no clip path (nor an 8bim profile to get it from). But the PDF does contain an image with a clip path. So you need to extract it from the PDF vector shell. Then you can combine them to make the background transparent. To do this you can use pdfimages tool. See https://manpages.debian.org/testing/pop ... .1.en.html. It is part of the poppler tools. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdfimages and https://poppler.freedesktop.org

Thank you very much for the detailed clarification

Just one more thing. In the example commands you showed me it's taking out a TIFF file out of the PDF and converting to PNG with IM.
I tried running The output was 2 files:
* example-000.jpg
* example-001.ppm

but I was hoping I'd get the JPG file with a clipping path included.
Is there a way to combine those two into one JPG file with a clipping path using ImageMagick?

spittman wrote:Is there a way to combine those two into one JPG file with a clipping path using ImageMagick?

No, IM can't write clipping paths. Gimp can.