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Alright I added -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 in delegate.xml, Its still taking a lot of time when I run the same command. Irrespective of whether I give file.pdf[0] or file.pdf

Obviously, IM is evaluating the whole file again. But it should just convert 1st page. What do you think seems to be issue?

Ok, so i found there a solution
If I use the following -

gs -sDEVICE=jpeg -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 -o test2.jpg file.pdf

I get the result in seconds.
So I can do with on 2 things here -
a) I can change the command line params to gs
b) Find out imagemagic-convert params equivalent to ...

OS - Ubuntu 14.04
IM Version - 6.7.7 and 7.0.1
the file size is over 9MB (Mega Bytes) .

I'll look into Ghostscript.
Any other solutions would be helpful.

Hello all,

I am using imagemagick to convert a 1st page of pdf to a thumbnail.

I am using command -

convert file.pdf[0] -background white -flatten -resize 173 -crop 173X229+0+0 -gravity NorthWest +repage test.jpg

However when the pdf is large i,e around 9mbs the time taken on my machine is ...