Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Has there ever been discussion of switching to poppler? It is surprisingly fast and renders pdfs very well. Unfortunately it's completely undocumented

IM uses GS if its available regardless. But what exactly does --with-gslib actually do? Because GS works with IM either way.

I thought originally that it allowed IM to process PDF documents without launching the 'gs' command but I've noticed that on the debian/ubuntu distributed packages (which I'm sure use --with-gslib during their builds because they have deps on gslib) I still see a 'gs' process when working with PDF d...

Let me explain what I'm doing and maybe you can offer some advice. 1. I have no locally built software on this machine. 2. the only jpeg lib installed anywhere (I did a full file system find for any references to libjpeg) on this system is 6.2 3. I am building ghostscipt and imagemagick on debian 6....

I'm having this same problem only reversed. There is no trace of libjpeg 8 on my system and I still get:

convert: Wrong JPEG library version: library is 80, caller expects 62 `0-z.jpg' @ error/jpeg.c/JPEGErrorHandler/316.

I also have no libtest that I know of that has a dependency on libjpeg8

yeah, I bumped it to 4x that and there was little or no improvement. I'm wondering if maybe my pdf viewer applies some kind of smoothing to the actual image. I used pdfimages to extract some of these and they look nearly identical to the output produced by convert.

I've seen a few people mention pdfimages from xpdf (its actually part of poppler-utils now). I am NOT seeing it extracting a lossless copy of the image. Looking at the image in the PDF it is still better quality than the resulting image it extracts. Why I have no idea.

I'm using the following: convert -density 204x196 -units PixelsPerInch in.pdf -alpha remove -resize '1728x2156!' -compress Fax %d-out.tiff Which is a command I found in another post on the forum. The resulting tiff file isn't horrible but the text is a bit jagged. Any recommendations for parameters ...