transparency not coming through on pdf to jpg
Posted: 2009-02-13T12:16:19-07:00
When I convert a pdf to jpg (also tried png etc...) the transparency is disappearing as seen in the screenshot: (to the left is the pdf in illustrator, on the right is the jpg after being converted by imagemagick.
http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dataxd9.png
Illustrator has three settings:
Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3)
Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)
Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5)
Acrobat 7 (PDF 1.6)
Acrobat 8 (PDF 1.7)
This is what I have discovered - when illustrator saves it as pdf 1.3, then imagemagick preserves the transparency correctly, but for any of the other versions listed it does the white boxes.
is there a way to get image magick to work with pdf's 1.4 - 1.7? I ask this as the artists in the company use a lot of functionality that is not available in 1.3 so we cannot use that version.
http://img12.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dataxd9.png
Illustrator has three settings:
Acrobat 4 (PDF 1.3)
Acrobat 5 (PDF 1.4)
Acrobat 6 (PDF 1.5)
Acrobat 7 (PDF 1.6)
Acrobat 8 (PDF 1.7)
This is what I have discovered - when illustrator saves it as pdf 1.3, then imagemagick preserves the transparency correctly, but for any of the other versions listed it does the white boxes.
is there a way to get image magick to work with pdf's 1.4 - 1.7? I ask this as the artists in the company use a lot of functionality that is not available in 1.3 so we cannot use that version.