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Is there any way to give -density a formula instead of a fixed value?

I am trying to convert a PDF to JPEG by rendering with at 2x the intended output density, downsampling to get antialiased lines, and finally assigning the output JPG proper density (ppi) metadata so that its physical size in inches is the same as the original PDF (even if ppi is different).

Taking into accound Imagemagick considers all PDFs to be 72 ppi, consider this example:

• The input PDF is 10x10 inches, i.e. 720x720px at 72 ppi
• The output JPG should be 1440x1440px at 144ppi

The input file is first rendered with a density (288) twice the intended output density for better antialiasing. Output density (144) is then added to the output file to preserve physical size in inches: Hence, if using a formula, I was thinking of something like: But apparently -density does not accept that kind of fx formulas. Any way to do it then?

compute it in one command and save as variable, then use in the next command

densityval=`convert image -format "%[fx:round(2*(1440/(w/resolution.x)))" info:`
convert -density ${densityval}x -geometry 1440x input.pdf -density ${densityval}x output.jpg

This is something that is desperately wanted. But difficult to implement.

Here is one proposal, but something more radical may be needed for IM v7

http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/bugs/future/#settings