Why convert in ImageMagick can not convert pdf to image

Question

I try to convert pdf file to png image in ImageMagick from windows 10 command line as follows:

Magick convert a.pdf a.png

I get error

magick: FailedToExecuteCommand `"gswin32c.exe" -q ...

But it works for converting image to image. What is the problem?

If you give the full path to where you installed the ImageMagick version of convert it should work, but it may need other programs from the same directory: if so, and this directory is not in PATH, you will need to go to that directory and give full paths to the source and target files instead. — AFH, Commented Feb 3, 2018 at 19:55

RedGrittyBrick · Accepted Answer · 2018-02-03 20:52:36Z

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ImageMagick needs Ghostscript installed in order to read PDF files.

Ghostscript is a separate project entirely. gswin32c is the 32-bit MS-Windows version of Ghostscript.

answered Feb 3, 2018 at 20:45

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