[magick-developers] 1st page of PDF problem - gives an animated GIF!

[Mark Dodwell]

On 19 Nov 2007, at 09:51, Mark Dodwell wrote:

> I'm using magick to create an image of the first page of a PDF  
> document. I use the following command:
>
> convert -resize 150x -crop 150x150! -gravity center -strip -colors  
> 128 -resample 72x +repage 'file.pdf'[0] 'file.gif'
>
> This has worked perfectly for me apart from 1 exception. For one  
> PDF, I end up with an animated gif containing two frames. So, it  
> seems to be ignoring the [0] part?
>
> In the animated GIF - the first frame is correct, but the second is  
> the part of the image that did not make it inside the crop region  
> specified.
>
> Any ideas?

Just to let you know I managed to 'fix' this by adding the following  
option:

   -delete '1-9999'

Be good to know if there is a better solution?

~ Mark