Trouble Converting PDF to TIFF

[sl4184]

Hello,

I'm using Version: ImageMagick 7.0.8-16 Q16 x86_64 2018-12-10 of ImageMagick on Mac in the terminal app and am having trouble converting a pdf to tiff. I keep inputting this code:

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magick convert -density 300 cookies_recipes2.pdf -depth 8 -strip -background white -alpha off cookies.tiff

and I keep getting this message:

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convert: FailedToExecuteCommand `'gs' -sstdout=%stderr -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 '-sDEVICE=pngalpha' -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 '-r300x300'  '-sOutputFile=/var/folders/kk/bsm199sn5ts3_g71yrrsg4sh0000gn/T/magick-25732sR0jylOlAqYf%d' '-f/var/folders/kk/bsm199sn5ts3_g71yrrsg4sh0000gn/T/magick-25732Rs1mLSNeH3YC' '-f/var/folders/kk/bsm199sn5ts3_g71yrrsg4sh0000gn/T/magick-25732a2ot71X7vOq6'' (1) @ error/pdf.c/InvokePDFDelegate/290.
convert: no images defined `cookies.tiff' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3300.

I've also tried putting in the code without "magick" in front and I've also tried just:

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magick convert cookies_recipes2.pdf cookies.tiff

and still nothing happens.

I appreciate the help. Thank you.

[fmw42]

Do you have Ghostscript installed? If not, then you need to install it. If so, then you likely need to edit your policy.xml file to enable the reading of PDF/EPS/etc. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/528 ... 3#52863413 and https://imagemagick.org/script/resources.php

Note on IM 7, use magick, not magick convert and not convert. Otherwise, you may get IM 6 behavior. Other tools, such as identify, mogrify, montage do need to be prefaced by magick, but not convert.

[sl4184]

Thank you! Installing GhostScript worked