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Ran from command prompt "magick test.pdf test.tif"
Nasty error, says file not found. But the pdf file exists.
See cmd prompt dump below.
Any clues?

Directory of C:\temp\PDF

12/12/2018 06:45 PM <DIR> .
12/12/2018 06:45 PM <DIR> ..
06/27/2018 12:48 PM 160,819 test.pdf

C:\temp\PDF>magick test.pdf test.tif
magick: FailedToExecuteCommand `"gswin32c.exe" -q -dQUIET -dSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPA
USE -dNOPROMPT -dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=2 "-sDEVICE=p
ngalpha" -dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" "-sOutputFile=C:/Use
rs/gkipe/AppData/Local/Temp/2/magick-4088kLVrYyyBB-zn%d" "-fC:/Users/jsmith/AppDa
ta/Local/Temp/2/magick-40883J7YmbXUn1_s" "-fC:/Users/jsmith/AppData/Local/Temp/2/
magick-4088IczyBkhwj5Hy"' (The system cannot find the file specified.
) @ error/delegate.c/ExternalDelegateCommand/475.
magick: PDFDelegateFailed `The system cannot find the file specified.
' @ error/pdf.c/ReadPDFImage/795.

Are you sure that your file is in the directory you specified? I do not recommend processing from \temp. Does it have read/write permissions. Try putting your image in some other directory and see if the command works. Try without referencing the volume, since it is in C: and I presume your ImageMagick is there also.

Otherwise, this could be a missing Ghostscript issue or the recent change to the policy.xml file where you may need to edit the policy for reading PDF to change the permissions to read|write. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/528 ... 3#52863413

Please always provide your IM version and platform/OS when asking questions on this forum

ImageMagick version: 7.0.8-16 Q16 x64
OS: WinServer 2008 R2 Enterprise

Running from a windows folder not named "temp", had no affect. Same error.

I added the line "<policy domain="module" rights="read|write" pattern="{PS,PDF,XPS}" />" to the policy.xml, as was suggested in the article. I needed to add the line, as there was nothing in the file with "PDF".

I verified the policy with the command "magick identify -list policy"
C:\PDF>magick identify -list policy

Path: C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-7.0.8-Q16\policy.xml
Policy: Module
rights: Read Write
pattern: {PS,PDF,XPS}

Path: [built-in]
Policy: Undefined
rights: None

The final results, were the same error. Changing the policy.xml had no affect.

To fmw42, what did you mean when you mentioned missing Ghostsript?
To run IM, we also need to install Ghostscript?

I installed Ghostscript.
And the command >magick test.pdf test.tif, did not fail.
I got a tif created. TIF image looks terrible, but now I need to add more parameters to the command.
Thanks, issue resolved.

You need Ghostscript to read PDF/EPS/EPT/AI file formats. Otherwise, ImageMagick does not need Ghostscript.