Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Transparent PDF ? I didn't know that was possible. But you are right. Thanks! I added -background white -flatten and it's behaving the way I expect it to now. I wonder if it's a change in the input files (I don't control them) or the update that caused the change.... For the record, the line is now ...

Thank you for your answer. Unfortunately either I don't understand it, or it's only a portion of the problem. I adjusted the script to -colorspace RGB in and -colorspace sRGB out and I can see where the drop shadow is less dark. But to me the big change was each 'item' and the INSIDE of the border ...

Hi All I have been using this line in a small bash script to make a thumbnail of the first page of a pdf file with a drop shadow on the whole thumbnail convert "$FILE[0]" -thumbnail 200x258 -bordercolor white -border 6 \( +clone -background black -shadow 80x3+2+2 \) +swap -background white -layers ...