PDF Thumbnail - RMagick

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Mark Dodwell wrote:

I need to create a preview of a PDF upload to a CMS I'm building. Does anyone know how to create a thumbnail of the first page of a PDF using RMagick?

PDF is outside RMagick's (huge) envelop (IIRC). Google PDF2PNG.

PNG is the politically-correct (and slightly more technically advance) way to do what GIF did. (And now that GIF is legal, it's no fun anymore!!)

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Mark Dodwell wrote:

But you can do this with Image Magick? Are you sure?

$ convert betty-boop.jpg boop.pdf $ ls   betty-boop.jpg boop.pdf

My bad. It seems to be available on my system. (Mac OYesSex).

Check your delegates.xml file