66.5 PDF Conversions

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ImageMagick provides considerable functionality for image conversion, including converting from pdf to png.

To convert from pdf to png a -denisty of 300 and -resize 50% seems to work well:

convert -density 300 myimg.pdf -resize 50% myimg.png

This may fail due to an ImageMagick security policy when the GhostScript interpreter is being used as in the handling of pdf files.

$ convert my.png my.pdf
convert-im6.q16: attempt to perform an operation not allowed by the security policy `PDF' @ error/constitute.c/IsCoderAuthorized/426.

You may like to research the risk and then override the policy by editting /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml to comment out the appropriate policy line:

sudo emacs /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
  <!-- policy domain="coder" rights="none" pattern="PDF" / -->


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