Imagemagick Convert PDF to JPEG: FailedToExecuteCommand `“gswin32c.exe” / PDFDelegateFailed

Question

I have PDFs that I need to convert to images. I have installed Imagemagick. I have a PDF named a.pdf that I can open (it is not corrupt) in the folder C:\\Convert\\

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Answer 1

Since you actually have to install Ghostscript to do this, why not drop ImageMagick all-together? It just forwards the command to Ghostscript anyway, not adding any value, just taking way longer to process (and loading everything into RAM while its at it).

Install GhostScript and run the command:

gswin64c.exe -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=jpeg -r200 -dJPEGQ=60 -sOutputFile=foo-%03d.jpg foo.pdf -dBATCH

This is identical and faster than running:

convert -quality 60 -density 200 foo.pdf foo-%03d.jpg