PDF To Tiff conversion issue

[lesaboteur]

Not always but occasionally when I try to convert some pdfs to a tiff using ImageMagick their backgrounds which were previously white turn either a dark grey or in one case the tiff came out completely green. Here's the convert command I'm using currently: convert -density 288 "fileName.pdf" -alpha off -background None -layers merge "fileName.tif"

Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated.

[fmw42]

Your pdf probably was transparent and had that background color. By turning transparency off, you expose the given underlying color. If you want to retain the transparency as you used -background none, then remove the -alpha off. If you want to make some other color rather than transparent, then use

convert -density 288 "fileName.pdf" -background somecolor -layers merge "fileName.tif

or just use -flatten rather than -layers merge.