On 9 Oct, 2010, at 12:10 , Wolfgang Hugemann wrote:

> This is caused by the relative ordering of the 'density' statement and 
> the input file. Try the following simple example:
> 
> convert -size 200x200 xc:blue test.pdf
> 
> This will embed a raster image of 200x200 pixels into a PDF.
> Then try
> 
> convert test.pdf -density 200x100 post.tif
> convert -density 200x100 test.pdf pre.tif
> 
> It will turn out that post.pdf will have 200x200 pixels and pre.pdf will 
> have will have 556x278 pixels.
> 
> In the first command, the PDF is read assuming equal resolution in x- 
> and y-direction and the resolution of the TIF ist set to 200x100.
> 
> In the latter case, the PDF is read assuming a resolution of 200x100 
> (instead of the 72x72 standard resolution), resulting in dimensions of 
> 200*200/72 = 556 in the x-direction and 200*100/72 = 278 in the y-direction.

Thanks for you help. I am using Paperclip for Rails (which uses imagemagick) to 
convert the images. Since the solution with changing the filename position does 
work I just wrote my own processor for Paperclip and moved the filename 
position. I was just curios why that was happening. 

> 
> Greetings from Münster, Germany

cool ... did spend quite some time in Muenster. 
Greetings from Vienna.

Cristian Livadaru 


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