Empty string output

[dontwork]

const options = {
    density: 300, // ppi
    format: "png",
    width,
    height
  }
  return pdf2pic.fromBuffer(buffer, options).bulk(1, true)
    .then(resizedImageBase64 => {

Hi I use your library regularly, thank you for making it.

I recently had an issue where the resizedImageBase64 above was an empty string. I was actually unable to replicate the issue on either my windows machine or within WSL.... I have it running in docker with the imagemagick and ghostscript packages installed and this is where the error is occurring.

However some research showed that ghostscript might silently fail if a font is not included in the PDF and the PDF i had the issue did not have the font included that the text used. I was hoping it might be possible to pass options through to ghostscript through this library in order to test this hypothesis. Is this possible?

Thanks

[kuzdogan]

I also have the same issue. Here's my code

  let res = await fetch(url);
  let buffer = await res.buffer();

  const options = {
    width: 2550,
    height: 3300,
    density: 330,
    savePath: "./output/from-buffer-to-base64"
  }

  // let convert = fromPath('pdf.pdf', options);
  let convert = fromBuffer(buffer, options);
  console.log(convert)

  let output = await convert(1, true)
  console.log('output')
  console.log(output)

  let base64 = output.base64;
  console.log('base64')
  console.log(base64)

fetch is the npm library node-fetch here.

See the console outputs:

[Function: r] {
  bulk: [Function],
  setOptions: [Function],
  setGMClass: [Function]
}
output
{ base64: '', size: '2550x3300', page: 1 }
base64

Edit: Does not work with the specimen1.pdf or other pdf's I tried

[kuzdogan]

Ok this is dumb but I actually didn't install the dependencies ghostscript and graphicsmagick :facepalm:. Now it works. Just install it as here.

Unfortunately I won't be able to use the library since I'll use it in a Google Cloud Function. If you are looking for an alternative like me you can use external API's such as cloudconver

[simaybocu]

Ok this is dumb but I actually didn't install the dependencies ghostscript and graphicsmagick 🤦. Now it works. Just install it as here.

Unfortunately I won't be able to use the library since I'll use it in a Google Cloud Function. If you are looking for an alternative like me you can use external API's such as cloudconver When I try to install the ghostscript4js package it gives this error. What could it be from? Can you please help?

[kuzdogan]

Ok this is dumb but I actually didn't install the dependencies ghostscript and graphicsmagick facepalm. Now it works. Just install it as here. Unfortunately I won't be able to use the library since I'll use it in a Google Cloud Function. If you are looking for an alternative like me you can use external API's such as cloudconver When I try to install the ghostscript4js package it gives this error. What could it be from? Can you please help?

I think I was referring to the Ubuntu packages: https://github.com/yakovmeister/pdf2image/blob/master/docs/gm-installation.md Follow the Windows instructions there

[simaybocu]

Ok this is dumb but I actually didn't install the dependencies ghostscript and graphicsmagick facepalm. Now it works. Just install it as here. Unfortunately I won't be able to use the library since I'll use it in a Google Cloud Function. If you are looking for an alternative like me you can use external API's such as cloudconver When I try to install the ghostscript4js package it gives this error. What could it be from? Can you please help?

I think I was referring to the Ubuntu packages: https://github.com/yakovmeister/pdf2image/blob/master/docs/gm-installation.md Follow the Windows instructions there

yes, I installed both under C:\Program Files, but it still doesn't work, base64 is an empty string :(( Do you know a different package with a similar function?

[AndreasSauer]

Unfortunately, I also only get an empty string back. Am I doing something wrong? I have installed ghostscript and graphicsmagick. Is there anything else I should be aware of? I am currently using Windows 10.

[Suraj59]

is there any update regarding the issue? guys, it's working fine before now it's broken.