ImageMagic & Ghostscript

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Oct 1, 2009, at 16:04, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:

> I just spent an hour trying to figure out why I couldn't create a  
> png thumbnail from a pdf using apache2/php5 exec(convert from to).
>
> Turns out convert uses gs "GhostScript" to work with pdf's and the  
> path to gs was not found by convert.
>
> I found by editing the ImageMagick file "/opt/local/lib/ 
> ImageMagick-6.5.5/config/delegates.xml" and changing:
> command=""gs"
> to
> command=""/opt/local/bin/gs"
>
> solved my problem.
>
> Maybe there is a better way. If not I'm wondering about the rest of  
> the paths in the delgates file.
>
> If editing this file is the preferred way then maybe this should be  
> done by MP at install.

Do you not have /opt/local/bin in your $PATH?