Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

• Mac OS 10.12

• Homebrew Imagemagick 7.0.5-3

• Homebrew php54-imagick 3.4.3_2

• Homebrew ghostscript 9.21

<?php
$image = new Imagick();
$image->readImage('myfile.pdf');

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'Failed to read the file' in /Users/myuser/Documents/mysite/imagemagick.php:118 Stack trace: #0 /Users/myuser/Documents/mysite/imagemagick.php(118): Imagick->readimage('/private/var/tmp/phpsmBzDU') #1 {main} thrown in /Users/myuser/Documents/mysite/imagemagick.php on line 118

fmw42 wrote: ↑2017-03-24T13:33:44-07:00 I do not think that Imagick works with IM 7, since syntax has changed. But I could be wrong for the latest versions of Imagick. Be sure it says it is compatible with IM 7.

Or perhaps Imagemagick/Imagick is not seeing ghostscript. I have seen this issue with Imagick before.

Does Imagick work with GIF or PNG or TIF or JPG? If so, then it is ghostscript not configured properly.

I have heard that you may have to modify the delegates.xml file to tell the PS/PDF reader the full path to the location of GS (Ghostscript)

fmw42 wrote: ↑2017-03-24T14:59:41-07:00 Did you install ghostscript at the same time as Imagemagick (in the same install command) from Homebrew? Not as two separate installs.

Find your delegates.xml file in your installed system.

Then open in a text editor and modify the lines where it says gs to be the full path2/gs. I do not know where that is in your system. So you may have to find it.

In unix, I can do (assuming my install puts this file in /usr):

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find /usr | grep "delegates.xml"

/usr/local/etc/ImageMagick-6/delegates.xml

I do not know where Homebrew puts its install of Imagemagick.


<delegate decode="ps:alpha" stealth="True" command="&quot;gs&quot; -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 &quot;-sDEVICE=pngalpha&quot; -dTextAlphaBits=%u -dGraphicsAlphaBits=%u &quot;-r%s&quot; %s &quot;-sOutputFile=%s&quot; &quot;-f%s&quot; &quot;-f%s&quot;"/>

<delegate decode="ps:cmyk" stealth="True" command="&quot;gs&quot; -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 &quot;-sDEVICE=pamcmyk32&quot; -dTextAlphaBits=%u -dGraphicsAlphaBits=%u &quot;-r%s&quot; %s &quot;-sOutputFile=%s&quot; &quot;-f%s&quot; &quot;-f%s&quot;"/>

<delegate decode="ps:color" stealth="True" command="&quot;gs&quot; -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 &quot;-sDEVICE=pnmraw&quot; -dTextAlphaBits=%u -dGraphicsAlphaBits=%u &quot;-r%s&quot; %s &quot;-sOutputFile=%s&quot; &quot;-f%s&quot; &quot;-f%s&quot;"/>