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I'm trying to convert PDF to JPEG using AWS Lambda service. This means that the server where the command executes doesn't have either Imagemagick or Ghostscript installed and that I need to provide self-contained binary with my code. For certain internal reasons I have to use Imagemagick 6 for this.

I've built the binaries on a vanilla AWS Linux server from the tarballs downloaded from imagemagic.org with all sort of imaginable combinations of

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--prefix=/var/task/imagemagick --enable-shared=no --enable-static=yes --disable-installed --with-gslib=yes

... switches to configure to no avail: unless I have Ghostscript installed my convert commands return the following error:

convert -alpha deactivate -colorspace RGB -geometry 364 -crop 348x640+8+32 /tmp/Nxxx,2019-07-14,A,001.pdf /tmp/Nxxx,2019-07-14,A,001.jpg
convert: NoImagesDefined `/tmp/Nxxx,2019-07-14,A,001.jpg' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3235.

Here's what configure invariably returns:

Delegate Program Configuration:
GhostPCL None pcl6 (unknown)
GhostXPS None gxps (unknown)
Ghostscript None gs (8.70)

Font Configuration:
Apple fonts --with-apple-font-dir=default
Dejavu fonts --with-dejavu-font-dir=default /usr/share/fonts/dejavu/
Ghostscript fonts --with-gs-font-dir=default /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1/
URW-base35 fonts --with-urw-base35-font-dir=default none
Windows fonts --with-windows-font-dir=default none

X11 Configuration:
X_CFLAGS =
X_PRE_LIBS =
X_LIBS =
X_EXTRA_LIBS =

Options used to compile and link:
PREFIX = /var/task/imagemagick
EXEC-PREFIX = /var/task/imagemagick
VERSION = 6.9.10
CC = gcc -std=gnu99 -std=gnu99
CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libpng12 -fopenmp -g -O2 -Wall -mtune=core-avx2 -fexceptions -pthread -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=0 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16
CPPFLAGS = -DMAGICKCORE_HDRI_ENABLE=0 -DMAGICKCORE_QUANTUM_DEPTH=16
PCFLAGS =
DEFS = -DHAVE_CONFIG_H
LDFLAGS =
LIBS = -ltiff -ljpeg -lpng12 -lz -lm
CXX = g++
CXXFLAGS = -pthread
FEATURES = DPC Cipher OpenMP
DELEGATES = mpeg jng jpeg png ps tiff zlib

So I guess the real question here is: how to add PDF support without installing Ghostscript?

So I guess the real question here is: how to add PDF support without installing Ghostscript?

You cannot. Ghostscript is needed/used by ImageMagick to read PDF files. ImageMagick will write PDF files without it.

Thanks fmw42. If that's the final answer then I know what to do, I'll just have to provide Ghostscript binaries as well. Problem is, the size allotted for Lambda functions is very limited. That's why I was hoping for something more compact than that.

Unfortunately, ImageMagick delegates reading of PDF files to Ghostscript. ImageMagick can created PDF files without it, but needs it to read PDF files.

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