Creating JPG thumbnails from PDF causes problems with version 6.8.9 of ImageMagick

[bharatb]

I am using Wordpress 5.1 and ImageMagick 6.8.9. When I upload PDF from the Media menu of WordPress then it creates JPG thumbnail with a black background.

First, I used default media import functionality of WP to import PDF files then I tried with my own script to create JPG thumbnail of the first page. Here it is

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$uploads = wp_upload_dir();
$imagick = new Imagick();
$imagick->readImage('test.pdf[0]');
$imagick->trimImage(2);
$imagick->setImagePage(0, 0, 0, 0);
$imagick->setImageFormat('jpeg');
file_put_contents($uploads['path'] . '/thumbnail.png', $imagick);

In both cases, it creates an image with a black background.
Does anyone have any idea about this?

[snibgo]

Does anyone have any idea about this?

What is wrong with the result? What do you want to change?

JPG format can't store transparency. Perhaps your PDF has a transparent background. Instead of writing a JPG, you could save to a format that can record transparency such as PNG or TIFF. Or flatten against a white background before saving as JPG.

[bharatb]

Does anyone have any idea about this?

What is wrong with the result? What do you want to change?

JPG format can't store transparency. Perhaps your PDF has a transparent background. Instead of writing a JPG, you could save to a format that can record transparency such as PNG or TIFF. Or flatten against a white background before saving as JPG.

Yes, I have a transparent background.
Do you mean I have to use PNG as formate?
Like :

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$imagick->setImageFormat('png');

I don't know how to use 'flatten' option.
I am checking http://php.net/manual/en/imagick.flattenimages.php

[fmw42]

If saving as PNG (as above from snibgo) does not work. The if your PDF file is CMYK with transparency, you must convert it to RGB before reading the PDF using the equivalent -colorspace sRGB. Ghostscript does not handle CMYK PDFs that have transparency.