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Alfred
Alfred

Reputation: 21386

Set ImageMagick PNG image background color

I have a PHP script to create a PNG thumbnail of a PDF file as follows:

<?php
$file ="test.pdf";
$im = new imagick(realpath($file).'[0]');
$im->setImageFormat("png");
$im->resizeImage(200,200,1,0);
// start buffering
ob_start();
$thumbnail = $im->getImageBlob();
$contents =  ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();    
echo "<img src='data:image/jpg;base64,".base64_encode($thumbnail)."' />";    
?>

Which returns a thumbnail, but the background is transparent. I want to set white background color (change the alpha layer to white). How can I do this?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 4947

Answers (2)

TheTambu
TheTambu

Reputation: 131

The solution is not in the background colour, but in the alpha channel! Try with this code:

$im->readImage($fileInput);
$im->setImageAlphaChannel(imagick::ALPHACHANNEL_DEACTIVATE);

Upvotes: 5

TeckniX
TeckniX

Reputation: 673

I'm doing something similar, although I'm actually writing the image to the disk - When I used your direct output, it worked and I got the actual color from the PDF.

Through a bit of debugging, I figured that the issue was actually related to the 

imagick::resizeImage()

function. For whatever reason, when you set all of your colors, compression, etc. the resizeImage adds the black background. My solution is to use GD for the resizing, so that I can have a full dynamic resize - Since you're not interested in such thing, I would simply use the image sampling functionality. Your code should be like this:

<?php
$file ="test.pdf";
$im = new imagick(realpath($file).'[0]');
$im->setCompression(Imagick::COMPRESSION_JPEG);
$im->setCompressionQuality(80);
$im->setImageFormat("jpeg");
$im->sampleImage(200,200);
// start buffering
ob_start();
$thumbnail = $im->getImageBlob();
$contents =  ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();    
echo "<img src='data:image/jpg;base64,".base64_encode($thumbnail)."' />";    
?>

Upvotes: 2

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