ImageMagick PDF to JPGs sometimes results in black background
Ran into this one today, found this:
https://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?t=20234
Based on that, these should all work:
-flatten
-alpha flatten
-alpha remove
I'm currently using the below for my specific case which works great:
convert -thumbnail "1280x800>" -density 300 -background white -alpha remove in.pdf out.jpg
Simple fix to this issue is to use an image format that supports transparency, such as png.
So:
convert -density 175 -colorspace sRGB test.pdf -resize 50% -quality 95 test.png
Problem solved :)
If you want a high quality result, use this command:
convert -density 700 input.pdf -resize 25% -append -quality 98 -alpha remove output.jpg
For windows users, use magick
instead of convert