Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Further Testing:

Uninstalled GS 9.14, installed GS 9.10. Ran convert. WORKED! :D

to verify; uninstalled GS 9.10, installed GS9.14. Ran convert. BLACK. :(

So it seems to be an issue with the interaction between IM and GS 9.14.

if I just run the file through GS 9.14 with

gswin64c -q -dNOPAUSE ...

I uninstalled both GS and all version of IM from my test pc and started from scratch.

First installed just IM 6.8.9-5 Q16 x64. Ran the convert, it failed as expected not being able to find GS.

I then installed GS 9.14. Ran the convert. This time no error, but output is still black.

I'm installing ...

Here is the line copied as is from my delegates.xml:

<delegate decode="ps:alpha" stealth="True" command=""@PSDelegate@" -q -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=%u -dGraphicsAlphaBits=%u "-r%s" %s ...

Thanks for the quick reply.

-alpha off does not seem to have any effect.

from the -list command:

TIFF* TIFF rw+ Tagged Image File Format (LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.3)
TIFF64* TIFF rw- Tagged Image File Format (64-bit) (LIBTIFF, Version 4.0.3)

Not seeing GhostScirpt in the -list command

gs9.14 is ...

Using convert.exe to produce .tif files from PDF's. The PDFs come from vendors as email attachments so I have no control over creation. 95% of the time everything works fine. From certain vendors I get PDFs that, when converted, are all black or mostly black. Here is the command:

convert.exe ...