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Hi guys

I'm just getting started with imagemagick so please bear with me : ]

I've been trying to convert a vector pdf into a png. The width of the png should be exactly 900 pixels.

this is the command I tried, however the png is always around 200 pixels (the size the pdf was encoded at):
I also tried -resize, but that resized the png file instead of the pdf, introducing scaling artifacts.

what am I doing wrong?

Try the -density option, for example,

• convert -density 100 image.pdf image.png

so there's no way to specify an absolute pixel amount for the output?

I guess I'll have to create a really big png using the density option, and then downsample it to the absolute size I need. Is that correct?

thanks

That would work. Super-sample the image with the -density option then resize to your absolute dimensions with -resize.

ok, thanks for your help!