Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'Unable to read the file'

Question

I'm running PHP 5.4.30 with imagick module 3.1.0RC2. phpinfo() does show the module as loaded and phpinfo() shows PDF as a supported format.

When running:

$image = new Imagick();
$image->readImage('./test.pdf');

I receive:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'Unable to read the file: ./test.pdf'

When I change the image type to be a JPEG and read './test.jpg' No errors are returned. Permissions have been check and different PDFs have been tested. I have inserted the absolute path to the image with an exception still being thrown. The images are for this example placed in the same directory alongside the script. What am I missing?

Where are those test images located in the file system? To what absolute path should the replative path `./test.pdf` expand? — arkascha, Jul 18 '14 at 15:47

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:44

I had the exact same problem. As command line it worked perfectly fine: convert book.pdf book.jpeg but pdf didn't seem to work. If not, you may want to install GhostScript I found the solution on the issue 588918. You simply have to create a symlink of gs (the GhostScript library) in usr/bin. Basically, If you do something like

sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/gs-noX11 /usr/bin/gs

and restart your server it should work. At least it did for me.

Uncaught exception 'ImagickException' with message 'Unable to read the file'

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