imagemagick

[Xin Liu]

I was the one who posted the problem that ImageMagick did not convert
pdf to eps nicely. I tried to modify delegates.xml as you suggested,
but it seems to me that the modification does not affect ImageMagick:
for instance, I deleted the entry about converting pdf to eps, but the
"convert" command did not complain about not finding a delegate.

However, from delegate.xml I find that I don't really need ImageMagick
to convert pdf to eps. I just copy the gs command in the delegate
entry to a shell script, and it works. Thanks for the hint!

Best
Regards,

Xin Liu

On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 5:05 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht <brad at pixilla.com> wrote:
> I noticed someone writing about imagemagick and remembered something that
> took me an hour or so to figure out.
>
> At the time the MacPorts ImageMagick port did not find /opt/local/gs for
> converting pdf's and ai files. I think that's what I was doing.
>
> I ended up needing to edit
> "/opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.5.8/config/delegates.xml" and fix the path to
> gs (GhostScript).
>
> This may have been fixed or maybe I was doing something weird.
>
> I think the conversion worked from the command line but php5's Imagick
> didn't find gs which kinda makes sense. I couldn't figure out how to alter
> php5/Imagick's environment to have it find gs so I just fixed the paths in
> /opt/local/lib/ImageMagick-6.5.8/config/delegates.xml.
>
> Maybe this will help someone.