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Kristofor
Kristofor

Reputation: 41

Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'Unable to read the file'

I'm running PHP 5.4.30 with imagick module 3.1.0RC2. phpinfo() does show the module as loaded and phpinfo() shows PDF as a supported format.

When running:

$image = new Imagick();
$image->readImage('./test.pdf');

I receive:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'Unable to read the file: ./test.pdf'

When I change the image type to be a JPEG and read './test.jpg' No errors are returned. Permissions have been check and different PDFs have been tested. I have inserted the absolute path to the image with an exception still being thrown. The images are for this example placed in the same directory alongside the script. What am I missing?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 5814

Answers (1)

Jean-François La Rocca
Jean-François La Rocca

Reputation: 61

I had the exact same problem. As command line it worked perfectly fine: convert book.pdf book.jpeg but pdf didn't seem to work. If not, you may want to install GhostScript I found the solution on the issue 588918. You simply have to create a symlink of gs (the GhostScript library) in usr/bin. Basically, If you do something like 

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11 /usr/bin/gs

and restart your server it should work. At least it did for me.

Upvotes: 6

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