Imagemagick use-trimbox doesn't work at all - linux

I'm desparately trying to convert PDF to JPG by Imagemagick (convert command) preserving trimbox.
I run following command (convert only first page).
convert -verbose -define pdf:use-trimbox=true "test_org.pdf[0]" cropped.jpg
Here is an output. Looks like imagemagick doesn't pass use-trimbox parameter to the ghostscript. May that be a reason? As at the moment converted image is mediabox size, not trimbox. Version of ImageMagick is 6.0.7, ghostscript GPL Ghostscript 8.64.
convert: **"gs" -q -dBATCH -dSAFER -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dNOPAUSE -dAlignToPixels=0 "-sDEVICE=bmpsep8" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-g652x935" "-r72x72" -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 "-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-XXgTtZZG" "-f/tmp/magick-XXs4Kjq2" "-ftest_org.pdf".**
/tmp/magick-XXgTtZZG[0] BMP 652x935 PseudoClass 256c 2.3mb 0.050u 0:01
/tmp/magick-XXgTtZZG[1] BMP 652x935 PseudoClass 256c 2.3mb 0.040u 0:01
/tmp/magick-XXgTtZZG[2] BMP 652x935 PseudoClass 256c 2.3mb 0.020u 0:01
/tmp/magick-XXgTtZZG[3] BMP 652x935 PseudoClass 256c 2.3mb 0.010u 0:01
test_org.pdf PDF 652x935 652x935+0+0 DirectClass 2.3mb 0.040u 0:01
test_org.pdf PDF 652x935 652x935+0+0 DirectClass 2.3mb 0.040u 0:01
test_org.pdf=>cropped.jpg PDF 652x935 652x935+0+0 DirectClass 202kb 0.120u 0:01

You possibly have too old ImageMagick. Works fine in my case.
Version: ImageMagick 6.6.0-4 2010-11-16 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
-define pdf:use-trimbox=true makes convert invoke gs with -dUseTrimBox option, which I don't see in output provided by you. Consider updating ImageMagick.

Your ImageMagick 6.0.7 is more than 6 years old (dozens of releases back). Current is 6.7.0-9.
Your Ghostscript 8.64 is also more than 2 years old already (5 releases back). Current is 9.02.
My recommendation is to upgrade.
On my (Windows) system I have IM 6.7.0-8 and GS 9.02. Running -define pdf:use-trimbox=true works fine here and translates to a Ghostscript commandline parameter of -dUseTrimBox=true.
However (and this is important!): one should take into account, that for many practical example PDFs out there, TrimBox is undefined, or explicitely set to the same values as MediaBox. Both have the same effect: a -dUseTrimBox=true will not make any difference in the output to a -dUseTrimBox=false.

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Cannot open .jpg, .png, or .tif files with ImageMagick, only .gif files work

I am using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS (Bionic Beaver) on Windows Subsystem for Linux. I installed ImageMagick according to these instructions, the only exception being ImageMagick version is currently 7.0.10-34, not 7.0.4-5: https://www.tutorialspoint.com/how-to-install-imagemagick-on-ubuntu.
I've downloaded a test .gif and successfully run commands like convert giphy.gif -flip new.gif and magick giphy.gif giphy.tif and identify giphy.gif, but when I try to run the same commands with "panda.jpg" or "15k4881.tif", I get the following errors:
$ identify panda.jpg
identify: no decode delegate for this image format `JPG' # error/constitute.c/ReadImage/562.
$ convert 15k4881.tif -flip 15k4881.tif
convert: no decode delegate for this image format `TIF' # error/constitute.c/ReadImage/562. convert: no images defined `15k4881.tif' # error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3285.
I'm very, very new to all this but I can tell from the following outputs that .jpg, .tif, and .png are not supported nor have the proper delegates. What do I do to be able to modify these file types?
$ identify -list format gives me
Format Mode Description
3FR r-- Hasselblad CFV/H3D39II
3G2 r-- Media Container
3GP r-- Media Container
A* rw+ Raw alpha samples
AAI* rw+ AAI Dune image
AI rw- Adobe Illustrator CS2
APNG rw+ Animated Portable Network Graphics
ART* rw- PFS: 1st Publisher Clip Art
ARW r-- Sony Alpha Raw Image Format
ASHLAR* -w+ Image sequence laid out in continuous irregular courses
AVI r-- Microsoft Audio/Visual Interleaved
AVS* rw+ AVS X image
B* rw+ Raw blue samples
BGR* rw+ Raw blue, green, and red samples
BGRA* rw+ Raw blue, green, red, and alpha samples
BGRO* rw+ Raw blue, green, red, and opacity samples
BMP* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image
BMP2* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image (V2)
BMP3* rw- Microsoft Windows bitmap image (V3)
BRF* -w- BRF ASCII Braille format
C* rw+ Raw cyan samples
CAL* r-- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1
Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002
CALS* r-- Continuous Acquisition and Life-cycle Support Type 1
Specified in MIL-R-28002 and MIL-PRF-28002
CANVAS* r-- Constant image uniform color
CAPTION* r-- Caption
CIN* rw- Cineon Image File
CIP* -w- Cisco IP phone image format
CLIP* rw+ Image Clip Mask
CMYK* rw+ Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black samples
CMYKA* rw+ Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, black, and alpha samples
CR2 r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CR3 r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CRW r-- Canon Digital Camera Raw Image Format
CUBE* r-- Cube LUT
CUR* rw- Microsoft icon
CUT* r-- DR Halo
DATA* rw+ Base64-encoded inline images
DCM* r-- Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine image
DICOM is used by the medical community for images like X-rays. The
specification, "Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine
(DICOM)", is available at http://medical.nema.org/. In particular,
see part 5 which describes the image encoding (RLE, JPEG, JPEG-LS),
and supplement 61 which adds JPEG-2000 encoding.
DCR r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image File
DCRAW r-- Raw Photo Decoder (dcraw)
DCX* rw+ ZSoft IBM PC multi-page Paintbrush
DDS* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
DNG r-- Digital Negative
DPX* rw- SMPTE 268M-2003 (DPX 2.0)
Digital Moving Picture Exchange Bitmap, Version 2.0.
See SMPTE 268M-2003 specification at http://www.smtpe.org
DXT1* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
DXT5* rw+ Microsoft DirectDraw Surface
EPDF rw- Encapsulated Portable Document Format
EPI rw- Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
EPS rw- Encapsulated PostScript
EPS2 -w- Level II Encapsulated PostScript
EPS3 -w+ Level III Encapsulated PostScript
EPSF rw- Encapsulated PostScript
EPSI rw- Encapsulated PostScript Interchange format
ERF r-- Epson RAW Format
FAX* rw+ Group 3 FAX
FAX machines use non-square pixels which are 1.5 times wider than
they are tall but computer displays use square pixels, therefore
FAX images may appear to be narrow unless they are explicitly
resized using a geometry of "150x100%".
FILE* r-- Uniform Resource Locator (file://)
FITS* rw- Flexible Image Transport System
FLV rw+ Flash Video Stream
FRACTAL* r-- Plasma fractal image
FTP* --- Uniform Resource Locator (ftp://)
FTS* rw- Flexible Image Transport System
G* rw+ Raw green samples
G3* rw- Group 3 FAX
G4* rw- Group 4 FAX
GIF* rw+ CompuServe graphics interchange format
GIF87* rw- CompuServe graphics interchange format (version 87a)
GRADIENT* r-- Gradual linear passing from one shade to another
GRAY* rw+ Raw gray samples
GRAYA* rw+ Raw gray and alpha samples
HALD* r-- Identity Hald color lookup table image
HDR* rw+ Radiance RGBE image format
HISTOGRAM* -w- Histogram of the image
HRZ* rw- Slow Scan TeleVision
HTM* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
HTML* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
HTTP* --- Uniform Resource Locator (http://)
HTTPS* r-- Uniform Resource Locator (https://)
ICB* rw- Truevision Targa image
ICO* rw+ Microsoft icon
ICON* rw- Microsoft icon
IIQ r-- Phase One Raw Image Format
INFO -w+ The image format and characteristics
INLINE* rw+ Base64-encoded inline images
IPL* rw+ IPL Image Sequence
ISOBRL* -w- ISO/TR 11548-1 format
ISOBRL6* -w- ISO/TR 11548-1 format 6dot
JNX* r-- Garmin tile format
JSON -w+ The image format and characteristics
K* rw+ Raw black samples
K25 r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image Format
KDC r-- Kodak Digital Camera Raw Image Format
LABEL* r-- Image label
M* rw+ Raw magenta samples
M2V rw+ MPEG Video Stream
M4V rw+ Raw VIDEO-4 Video
MAC* r-- MAC Paint
MAP* rw- Colormap intensities and indices
MASK* rw+ Image Clip Mask
MAT rw+ MATLAB level 5 image format
MATTE* -w+ MATTE format
MEF r-- Mamiya Raw Image File
MIFF* rw+ Magick Image File Format
MKV rw+ Multimedia Container
MONO* rw- Raw bi-level bitmap
MOV rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MP4 rw+ VIDEO-4 Video Stream
MPC* rw+ Magick Persistent Cache image format
MPEG rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MPG rw+ MPEG Video Stream
MRW r-- Sony (Minolta) Raw Image File
MSL* --- Magick Scripting Language
MSVG -w+ ImageMagick's own SVG internal renderer
MTV* rw+ MTV Raytracing image format
MVG* rw- Magick Vector Graphics
NEF r-- Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
NRW r-- Nikon Digital SLR Camera Raw Image File
NULL* rw- Constant image of uniform color
O* rw+ Raw opacity samples
ORA --- OpenRaster format
ORF r-- Olympus Digital Camera Raw Image File
OTB* rw- On-the-air bitmap
PAL* rw- 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
PALM* rw+ Palm pixmap
PAM* rw+ Common 2-dimensional bitmap format
PANGO* --- Pango Markup Language
PATTERN* r-- Predefined pattern
PBM* rw+ Portable bitmap format (black and white)
PCD* rw- Photo CD
PCDS* rw- Photo CD
PCL rw+ Printer Control Language
PCT* rw- Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PCX* rw- ZSoft IBM PC Paintbrush
PDB* rw+ Palm Database ImageViewer Format
PDF rw+ Portable Document Format
PDFA rw+ Portable Document Archive Format
PEF r-- Pentax Electronic File
PES* r-- Embrid Embroidery Format
PFM* rw+ Portable float format
PGM* rw+ Portable graymap format (gray scale)
PGX* rw- JPEG 2000 uncompressed format
PICON* rw- Personal Icon
PICT* rw- Apple Macintosh QuickDraw/PICT
PIX* r-- Alias/Wavefront RLE image format
PLASMA* r-- Plasma fractal image
PNM* rw+ Portable anymap
POCKETMOD rw+ Pocketmod Personal Organizer
PPM* rw+ Portable pixmap format (color)
PS rw+ PostScript
PS2 -w+ Level II PostScript
PS3 -w+ Level III PostScript
PSB* rw+ Adobe Large Document Format
PSD* rw+ Adobe Photoshop bitmap
PWP* r-- Seattle Film Works
R* rw+ Raw red samples
RADIAL-GRADIENT* r-- Gradual radial passing from one shade to another
RAF r-- Fuji CCD-RAW Graphic File
RAS* rw+ SUN Rasterfile
RAW r-- Raw
RGB* rw+ Raw red, green, and blue samples
RGB565* r-- Raw red, green, blue samples in 565 format
RGBA* rw+ Raw red, green, blue, and alpha samples
RGBO* rw+ Raw red, green, blue, and opacity samples
RGF* rw- LEGO Mindstorms EV3 Robot Graphic Format (black and white)
RLA* r-- Alias/Wavefront image
RLE* r-- Utah Run length encoded image
RMF r-- Raw Media Format
RW2 r-- Panasonic Lumix Raw Image
SCR* r-- ZX-Spectrum SCREEN$
SCREENSHOT* r-- Screen shot
SCT* r-- Scitex HandShake
SFW* r-- Seattle Film Works
SGI* rw+ Irix RGB image
SHTML* -w- Hypertext Markup Language and a client-side image map
SIX* rw- DEC SIXEL Graphics Format
SIXEL* rw- DEC SIXEL Graphics Format
SPARSE-COLOR* -w+ Sparse Color
SR2 r-- Sony Raw Format 2
SRF r-- Sony Raw Format
STEGANO* r-- Steganographic image
SUN* rw+ SUN Rasterfile
SVG rw+ Scalable Vector Graphics
SVGZ -w+ Compressed Scalable Vector Graphics
TEXT* r-- Text
TGA* rw- Truevision Targa image
THUMBNAIL* -w+ EXIF Profile Thumbnail
TILE* r-- Tile image with a texture
TIM* r-- PSX TIM
TM2* r-- PS2 TIM2
TXT* rw+ Text
UBRL* -w- Unicode Text format
UBRL6* -w- Unicode Text format 6dot
UIL* -w- X-Motif UIL table
UYVY* rw- 16bit/pixel interleaved YUV
VDA* rw- Truevision Targa image
VICAR* rw- VICAR rasterfile format
VID* rw+ Visual Image Directory
VIFF* rw+ Khoros Visualization image
VIPS* rw+ VIPS image
VST* rw- Truevision Targa image
WBMP* rw- Wireless Bitmap (level 0) image
WEBM rw+ Open Web Media
WMV rw+ Windows Media Video
WPG* r-- Word Perfect Graphics
X3F r-- Sigma Camera RAW Picture File
XBM* rw- X Windows system bitmap (black and white)
XC* r-- Constant image uniform color
XCF* r-- GIMP image
XPM* rw- X Windows system pixmap (color)
XPS r-- Microsoft XML Paper Specification
XV* rw+ Khoros Visualization image
Y* rw+ Raw yellow samples
YCbCr* rw+ Raw Y, Cb, and Cr samples
YCbCrA* rw+ Raw Y, Cb, Cr, and alpha samples
YUV* rw- CCIR 601 4:1:1 or 4:2:2
* native blob support
r read support
w write support
+ support for multiple images
$ convert -list configure gives me
Path: /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-7.0.10//config-Q16HDRI/configure.xml
Name Value
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
CC gcc
CFLAGS -fopenmp -Wall -g -O2 -mtune=core2 -fexceptions -pthread -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=1 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16
CODER_PATH /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-7.0.10/modules-Q16HDRI/coders
CONFIGURE ./configure
CONFIGURE_PATH /usr/local/etc/ImageMagick-7/
COPYRIGHT Copyright (C) 1999-2020 ImageMagick Studio LLC
CPPFLAGS -I/usr/local/include/ImageMagick-7
CXX g++
CXXFLAGS -pthread
DEFS -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
DELEGATES mpeg
DISTCHECK_CONFIG_FLAGS --disable-deprecated --with-quantum-depth=16 --with-jemalloc=no --with-umem=no --with-autotrace=no --with-gslib=no --with-fontpath= --with-rsvg=no --with-wmf=no --with-perl=no
DOCUMENTATION_PATH /usr/local/share/doc/ImageMagick-7
EXEC-PREFIX /usr/local
EXECUTABLE_PATH /usr/local/bin
FEATURES DPC HDRI Cipher OpenMP
FILTER_PATH /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-7.0.10/modules-Q16HDRI/filters
GIT_REVISION 17696
HOST x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
INCLUDE_PATH /usr/local/include/ImageMagick-7
LDFLAGS -L/usr/local/lib
LIB_VERSION 0x70A
LIB_VERSION_NUMBER 7,0,10,34
LIBRARY_PATH /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-7.0.10
LIBS -lm -lpthread -lgomp
NAME ImageMagick
PCFLAGS -fopenmp -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=1 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16
PREFIX /usr/local
QuantumDepth 16
RELEASE_DATE 2020-10-22
SHARE_PATH /usr/local/share/ImageMagick-7
SHAREARCH_PATH /usr/local/lib/ImageMagick-7.0.10/config-Q16HDRI
TARGET_CPU x86_64
TARGET_OS linux-gnu
TARGET_VENDOR pc
VERSION 7.0.10
WEBSITE https://imagemagick.org
Path: [built-in]
Name Value
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DELEGATES
FEATURES Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5)
MAGICK_TEMPORARY_PATH /tmp
NAME ImageMagick
QuantumDepth Q16
and convert -list delegate gives me
Path: /usr/local/etc/ImageMagick-7/delegates.xml
Delegate Command
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
blender => "blender' -b '%i' -F PNG -o '%o''\n'magick' convert -concatenate '%o*.png' '%o"
bmp<= jxr "/bin/mv '%i' '%i.bmp'; 'JxrEncApp' -i '%i.bmp' -o '%o.jxr'; /bin/mv '%i.bmp' '%i'; /bin/mv '%o.jxr' '%o"
bmp<= wdp "/bin/mv '%i' '%i.bmp'; 'JxrEncApp' -i '%i.bmp' -o '%o.jxr'; /bin/mv '%i.bmp' '%i'; /bin/mv '%o.jxr' '%o"
bpg => "bpgdec' -b 16 -o '%o.png' '%i'; /bin/mv '%o.png' '%o"
cdr => "#UniconvertorDelegate#' '%i' '%o.svg'; /bin/mv '%o.svg' '%o"
cgm => "#UniconvertorDelegate#' '%i' '%o.svg'; /bin/mv '%o.svg' '%o"
dng:decode => "ufraw-batch' --silent --create-id=also --out-type=png --out-depth=16 '--output=%u.png' '%i"
doc => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
docx => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
dot => "dot' -Tsvg '%i' -o '%o"
dvi => "dvips' -sstdout=%%stderr -o '%o' '%i"
dxf => "#UniconvertorDelegate#' '%i' '%o.svg'; /bin/mv '%o.svg' '%o"
eps<=>pdf "gs' -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 '-sDEVICE=pdfwrite' '-sOutputFile=%o' '-f%i"
eps<=>ps "gs' -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=ps2write' '-sOutputFile=%o' '-f%i"
fig => "#UniconvertorDelegate#' '%i' '%o.svg'; /bin/mv '%o.svg' '%o"
hpg => "hp2xx' -sstdout=%%stderr -m eps -f `basename '%o'` '%i'; /bin/mv -f `basename '%o'` '%o"
hpgl => "hp2xx' -sstdout=%%stderr -m eps -f `basename '%o'` '%i'; /bin/mv -f `basename '%o'` '%o"
htm => "html2ps' -U -o '%o' '%i"
html => "html2ps' -U -o '%o' '%i"
https:decode => "curl' -s -k -L -o '%u.dat' 'https:%M"
ilbm => "ilbmtoppm' '%i' > '%o"
jpg<= lep "lepton' '%i' '%o"
jxr => "/bin/mv '%i' '%i.jxr'; 'JxrDecApp' -i '%i.jxr' -o '%o.pnm'; /bin/mv '%i.jxr' '%i'; /bin/mv '%o.pnm' '%o"
lep => "lepton' '%i' '%o"
miff<= show "magick' display -immutable -delay 0 -title '%M' '%i"
odt => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
pdf<=>eps "gs' -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 -sPDFPassword='%a' '-sDEVICE=eps2write' '-sOutputFile=%o' '-f%i"
pdf<=>ps "gs' -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=ps2write' -sPDFPassword='%a' '-sOutputFile=%o' '-f%i"
png<= bpg "bpgenc' -b 12 -q '%~' -o '%o' '%i"
png<= webp "cwebp' -quiet %Q '%i' -o '%o"
pnm<= trace "potrace' --svg --output '%o' '%i"
pnm<= ilbm "ppmtoilbm' -24if '%i' > '%o"
ppt => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
pptx => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
ps<= prt " lpr' '%i"
ps<=>eps "gs' -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=eps2write' '-sOutputFile=%o' '-f%i"
ps<=>pdf "gs' -sstdout=%%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=pdfwrite' '-sOutputFile=%o' '-f%i"
ps<= print "#LPRDelegateDefault# '%i"
shtml => "html2ps' -U -o '%o' '%i"
sid => "mrsidgeodecode' -if sid -i '%i' -of tif -o '%o' > '%u"
svg => "rsvg-convert' -o '%o' '%i"
tiff<= launch "gimp' '%i"
video:decode => "avconv' -nostdin -v -1 -i '%i' -vframes %S -vcodec pam -an -f rawvideo -y '%u.pam' 2> '%u"
wdp => "/bin/mv '%i' '%i.jxr'; 'JxrDecApp' -i '%i.jxr' -o '%o.bmp'; /bin/mv '%i.jxr' '%i'; /bin/mv '%o.bmp' '%o"
webp => "dwebp' -pam '%i' -o '%o"
xls => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
xlsx => "libreoffice' --headless --convert-to pdf -outdir `dirname '%i'` '%i' 2> '%u'; /bin/mv '%i.pdf' '%o"
If you install ImageMagick from source, ensure you have the needed delegates.
Do something like the following: e.g. these steps are required in order to Install ImageMagick with JPG, PNG and TIFF delegates for example.
Update apt index:
sudo apt-get update
Install Build-Essential in order to configure and make the final Install:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
libjpg62-dev required in order to work with basic JPG files:
sudo apt-get install -y libjpeg62-dev
libtiff-dev is required in order to work with TIFF file format:
sudo apt-get install -y libtiff-dev
libpng-dev required in order to work with basic PNG files:
sudo apt-get install -y libpng-dev
Download ImageMagick:
wget https://www.imagemagick.org/download/ImageMagick.tar.gz
Untar Imagemagick:
tar xvzf ImageMagick.tar.gz
Access the working directory:
cd ImageMagick-*
Configure disabling the "shared" option and prefix installed source files with the stow dir path:
./configure --disable-shared --prefix=/usr/local/stow/ImageMagick
Compile, install and check:
sudo make && sudo make install && sudo make check
Stow the ImageMagick package:
cd /usr/local/stow/
stow ImageMagick
Ensure the above delegates are present:
identify --version
Version: ImageMagick 7.1.0-4 Q16 x86_64 2021-07-17 https://imagemagick.org
Copyright: (C) 1999-2021 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: https://imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: Cipher DPC HDRI OpenMP(4.5)
Delegates (built-in): freetype jbig jng jpeg lzma png tiff x xml zlib
Gnu Stow will make easier uninstalling the package if you need to re-install it from scratch:
cd /usr/local/stow/
stow -D ImageMagick #it will remove the symlinked soruce files inside ../lib, ../bin, etc.
rm -rf ImageMagick/
You've built your own imagemagick from source.
This is not an easy thing to do -- you need a lot of other packages for it to all work correctly (for example, you must install the headers for libjpeg and libexif if you want to process jpeg images), you'll need quite deep knowledge of file formats and file format libraries, you'll need to think carefully about security and which delegates you need, and then once you've built it, you'll need to maintain it.
Instead, it's almost always better to just use Ubuntu's built-in imagemagick. Simply enter:
apt install imagemagick
And it'll download and install a tested and working copy of imagemagick, and it'll automatically keep it up to date as bugfixes are issued. You should probably remove the imagemagick that you built to reduce confusion.
I would only build from source if I absolutely had to have a more recent version of a package than was in the package repository, and even then I'd think twice. Or even three times.

Ffmpeg support for svg rasterization

FFmpeg now support librsvg support for SVG rasterization.
I have tried the following command:
ffmpeg -i test.svg test.png
But I get the following error:
Decoder (codec svg) not found for input stream #0:0
I have search the doc but there is no examples given. Can someone tell me how to a command line using ffmpeg to generate a PNG from a SVG file?
Your ffmpeg needs to be compiled with --enable-librsvg. If you're compiling ffmpeg then you need to install whatever package provides the librsvg header files. For example, in Arch Linux it is librsvg, and in Ubuntu it is librsvg2-dev.
Series of images
Usage is similar to using raster images as inputs with the image demuxer. For example, a series of images named vector-001.svg, vector-002.svg, vector-003.svg, etc:
ffmpeg -i vector-%03d.svg -vf format=yuv420p output.mp4
Single image
ffmpeg -i input.svg output.png
With custom size:
ffmpeg -width 600 -i input.svg output.png
-keep_ar true is the default, so it will automatically calculate height in this example to preserve the aspect ratio.
Decoder specific options
The decoder librsvg has a few input options:
$ ffmpeg -h decoder=librsvg
[…]
-width <int> .D.V...... Custom width to render to (0 for default) (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default 0)
-height <int> .D.V...... Custom height to render to (0 for default) (from 0 to INT_MAX) (default 0)
-keep_ar <boolean> .D.V...... Keep aspect ratio with custom width/height (default true)

Image magick: takes too much time at linux server

I am facing an issue with time taken by imagemagic to execute the commands on my server. I also tried to make thread control from 20(default) to 1 but, no improvements.
Here are some of the commands we fire and time took for them on server. Is there any way to reduce this execution time?
/usr/bin/convert source1.jpeg -resize 4518x3013! output.png
real 0m13.150s
user 0m18.320s
sys 0m2.029s
/usr/bin/convert output.png -crop 2408x3010+1053+0 +repage cropped.png
real 0m5.978s
user 0m5.043s
sys 0m0.881s
/usr/bin/convert destination.png -draw image over 564,564+2408+3010 'cropped.png' output.png
real 0m10.085s
user 0m11.160s
sys 0m1.710s
Updated Information
identify -version command output:
Version: ImageMagick 6.8.9-1 Q16 x86_64 2014-08-16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright ( c ) 1999-2014 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: DPC OpenMP
Delegates: bzlib freetype gslib jng jpeg png ps tiff zlib
Server configuration:
OS version is centos 6
RAM 32GB
source1.jpeg(link)
First command executed with -bench 5 and returned below output.
Performance[1]: 5i 0.095ips 1.000e 90.970u 0:52.550
Performance[2]: 5i 0.104ips 0.522e 92.310u 0:48.110
Performance[3]: 5i 0.090ips 0.485e 93.420u 0:55.770
Performance[4]: 5i 0.086ips 0.474e 91.180u 0:58.230
Performance[5]: 5i 0.091ips 0.488e 94.850u 0:55.030
Thanks,
Sagar
Does this get you any faster?
convert input.png -quality 80% -resize 4518x3013! \
\( +clone -crop 2408x3010+1053+0 +repage \) \
-geometry +564+564 -composite output.png
For really fast PNG writing, use -quality 10 for drawings, -quality 11 for photos. This should cut your PNG-writing time by a factor of five.
The "quality" number doesn't affect image quality when writing a PNG. It only affects the compression effectiveness.

No output file from GhostScript PDF to PNG conversion

I have a two-page PDF I'm trying to convert to a PNG file. When I run:
gs -sDevice=pngalpha -o=gs-output-%d.png -r400 test1-0.pdf
I get:
GPL Ghostscript 9.07 (2013-02-14)
Copyright (C) 2012 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 2.
Page 1
%%BoundingBox: 35 35 577 757
%%HiResBoundingBox: 35.910001 35.910001 576.090022 756.090029
Page 2
%%BoundingBox: 35 35 577 757
%%HiResBoundingBox: 35.910001 35.910001 576.090022 756.090029
And then... nothing. No output files at all. Where am I going wrong?
You're so close you'll be mad ;-)
After a bit of manpage reading here's what worked for me:
gs -sDEVICE=pngalpha -ogs-output-%d.png -r400 test1-0.pdf
i.e. DEVICE instead of Device, and -o instead of -o=
In case it matters, my gs version is:
GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
try this which works perfectly with me and it get a very good results:
-sDEVICE=pngalpha -o "$OUTPUTIMAGEFILE" -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=2 -dNOPAUSE -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -dTextAlphaBits=4 "$INPUTPDFFILE"
However i guess that using -r400 is for JPEG images not PNGS

Optimize PDF files (with Ghostscript or other)

Is Ghostscript the best option if you want to optimize a PDF file and reduce the file size?
I need to store alot of PDF files and therefore I need to optimize and reduce the file size as much as possible
Does anyone have any experience with Ghostscript and/or other?
command line
exec('gs -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4
-dPDFSETTINGS=/screen -sOutputFile='.$file_new.' '.$file);
If you looking for a Free (as in 'libre') Software, Ghostscript is surely your best choice. However, it is not always easy to use -- some of its (very powerful) processing options are not easy to find documented.
Have a look at this answer, which explains how to execute a more detailed control over image resolution downsampling than what the generic -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen does (that defines a few overall defaults, which you may want to override):
How to downsample images within pdf file?
Basically, it tells you how to make Ghostscript downsample all images to a resolution of 72dpi (this value is what -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen uses -- you may want to go even lower):
-dDownsampleColorImages=true \
-dDownsampleGrayImages=true \
-dDownsampleMonoImages=true \
-dColorImageResolution=72 \
-dGrayImageResolution=72 \
-dMonoImageResolution=72 \
If you want to try if Ghostscript is able to also 'un-embed' the fonts used (sometimes it works, sometimes not -- depending on the complexity of the embedded font, and also on the font type used), you can try to add the following to your gs command:
gs \
-o output.pdf \
[...other options...] \
-dEmbedAllFonts=false \
-dSubsetFonts=true \
-dConvertCMYKImagesToRGB=true \
-dCompressFonts=true \
-c ".setpdfwrite <</AlwaysEmbed [ ]>> setdistillerparams" \
-c ".setpdfwrite <</NeverEmbed [/Courier /Courier-Bold /Courier-Oblique /Courier-BoldOblique /Helvetica /Helvetica-Bold /Helvetica-Oblique /Helvetica-BoldOblique /Times-Roman /Times-Bold /Times-Italic /Times-BoldItalic /Symbol /ZapfDingbats /Arial]>> setdistillerparams" \
-f input.pdf
Note: Be aware that downsampling image resolution will surely reduce quality (irreversibly), and dis-embedding fonts will make it difficult or impossible to display and print the PDFs unless the same fonts are installed on the machine....
Update
One option which I had overlooked in my original answer is to add
-dDetectDuplicateImages=true
to the command line. This parameter leads Ghostscript to try and detect any images which are embedded in the PDF multiple times. This can happen if you use an image as a logo or page background, and if the PDF-generating software is not optimized for this situation. This used to be the case with older versions of OpenOffice/LibreOffice (I tested the latest release of LibreOffice, v4.3.5.2, and it does no longer do such stupid things).
It also happens if you concatenate PDF files with the help of pdftk. To show you the effect, and how you can discover it, let's look at a sample PDF file:
pdfinfo p1.pdf
Producer: libtiff / tiff2pdf - 20120922
CreationDate: Tue Jan 6 19:36:34 2015
ModDate: Tue Jan 6 19:36:34 2015
Tagged: no
UserProperties: no
Suspects: no
Form: none
JavaScript: no
Pages: 1
Encrypted: no
Page size: 595 x 842 pts (A4)
Page rot: 0
File size: 20983 bytes
Optimized: no
PDF version: 1.1
Recent versions of Poppler's pdfimages utility have added support for a -list parameter, which can list all images included in a PDF file:
pdfimages -list p1.pdf
page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp objectID x-ppi y-ppi size ratio
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 0 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 7 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
This sample PDF is a 1-page document, containing an image, which is compressed with JPEG-compression, has a width of 423 pixels and a height of 600 pixels and renders at a resolution of 52 PPI on the page.
If we concatenate 3 copies of this file with the help of pdftk like so:
pdftk p1.pdf p1.pdf p1.pdf cat output p3.pdf
then the result shows these image properties via pdfimages -list:
pdfimages -list p3.pdf
page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp objectID x-ppi y-ppi size ratio
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 0 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 4 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
2 1 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 8 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
3 2 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 12 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
This shows that there are 3 identical PDF objects (with the IDs 4, 8 and 12) which are embedded in p3.pdf now. p3.pdf consists of 3 pages:
pdfinfo p3.pdf | grep Pages:
Pages: 3
Optimize PDF by replacing duplicate images with references
Now we can apply the above mentioned optimization with the help of Ghostscript
gs -o p3-optim.pdf -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dDetectDuplicateImages=true p3.pdf
Checking:
pdfimages -list p3-optim.pdf
page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp objectID x-ppi y-ppi size ratio
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 0 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 10 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
2 1 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 10 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
3 2 image 423 600 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 10 0 52 52 19.2K 2.6%
There is still one image listed per page -- but the PDF object ID is always the same now: 10.
ls -ltrh p1.pdf p3.pdf p3-optim.pdf
-rw-r--r--# 1 kp staff 20K Jan 6 19:36 p1.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 60K Jan 6 19:37 p3.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 kp staff 16K Jan 6 19:40 p3-optim.pdf
As you can see, the "dumb" concatentation made with pdftk increased the original file size to three times the original one. The optimization by Ghostscript brought it down by a considerable amount.
The most recent versions of Ghostscript may even apply the -dDetectDuplicateImages by default. (AFAIR, v9.02, which introduced it for the first time, didn't use it by default.)
You can obtain good results by converting from PDF to Postscript, then back to PDF using
pdf2ps file.pdf file.ps
ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/ebook file.ps file-optimized.pdf
The value of argument -dPDFSETTINGS defines the quality of the images in the resulting PDF. Options are, from low to high quality: /screen, /default, /ebook, /printer, /prepress, see http://milan.kupcevic.net/ghostscript-ps-pdf/ for a reference.
The Postscript file can become quite large, but the results are worth it. I went from a 60 MB PDF to a 140 MB Postscript file, but ended up with a 1.1 MB optimized PDF.
I use Ghostscript with following options taken from here.
gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen \
-dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=output.pdf input.pdf
You may find that pdftocairo (from Poppler) can make smaller PDFs but beware that it will strip some features (such as hyperlinks) away.
This worked for me
Convert your PDF to PS (this creates a large file
pdf2ps large.pdf very_large.ps
Convert the new PS back to a PDF
ps2pdf very_large.ps small.pdf
Source:
https://pandemoniumillusion.wordpress.com/2008/05/07/compress-a-pdf-with-pdftk/
You will lose in quality but if it's not an issue then ImageMagick's convert may proves helpful :
convert original.pdf reduced.pdf
Note that it doesn't always work : I once converted a 126 MB file into a 14 MB one using this command, but another time it doubled the size of a 350 Ko file.
Anyway it's worth giving it a try…
As mentioned in comments, of course there is no point in applying this command on a vector-based PDF, it will only be useful on rasterized images.
See also this post for related options.
Ghostscript comes with ps2pdf14 utility which can be used to optimise PDF file(s) but on some occasions size of "optimised" file may be bigger than original.
For the PDF which size is mainly due to embedded images (pdfimages -list is your friend), typically scanned documents, I would recommend the use of ocrmypdf which is quite good at optimizing, with optional OCR layer as a bonus.

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