Question

I built a pdf generator script for one of my clients and everything works properly. He then decided that he wanted me to create a thumbnail image from the PDF to display on another page, so I came across PHMagick and that seemed to do the trick.

The following code worked on my building server (iPage — I think it’s debian?), but now that I’ve moved it to his VPS, it is no longer working. FPDF has no trouble generating the pdf, so it is not a permissions issue.

Code:

require("phmagick/phmagick.php");
$pdf->Output("pdf.pdf");

$p = new phmagick('','pdf.png');
$p->debug = true;
$p->resize(800);

$p->acquireFrame("pdf.pdf");

This code returns the following error:

Error executing “convert “pdf.pdf”[0] “pdf.png””
return code: 127
command output :”sh: convert: command not found”

I have not changed any of the code since I moved it from the original server, and I just copied the entire site over, so why is PHMagick not working now? How do I get it to recognize convert.php in the plugins folder?

Just a note: I am only using PHMagick, not the whole of ImageMagick.

Answer 1

PHMagic appears to be using the command line convert command in background.

Most likely that command is simply not installed on the server.