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Cheers guys. Turned out that the path to gs wasn't in the system PATH variable, and the version of Apache we're using has some sort of weird bug in it where the PATH variable is reset to something else and can't be changed. Annoying. Nevertheless, I've edited the delegates.xml file for IM to point ...

Thanks for the link Anthony, but I don't think this is the whole story, as it were. Other ImageMagick commands (that don't involve PDF files) work fine from within PHP, it's just this one that is generating these decode errors. Could that be permissions issues with various Ghostscript libraries ...

I have a script that is supposed to take the first page of a PDF file and generate a thumbnail of it. I'm running ImageMagick 6.6.5-0 2010-10-14 Q16 on a CentOS system, and I have Ghostscript installed also. The weird thing is, the command doesn't work when run from within PHP's exec() function. The ...

What version did -shadow and +clone become available? And +swap for that matter?

I'm using 6.4.8 at home and on the live server they're only running 6.0.7 (and can't upgrade it apparently) and the script doesn't work until I comment out the +clone line.

Aah, brilliant Ta muchly, I'm using a Windows host for testing too - weird that it does that.

I was using IM 6.3.5, but last night changed to the latest version on the website to see if the behaviour was different, to no avail. I'm trying to replicate the polaroid effect seen in Anthony's IM Examples, but without using the -polaroid operator as this does too much - I don't want the slight ...