It has appeared in some forum articles, users who wanted to transform the first page of a PDF file to an image, in order to be able to offer that image as registry information.
Searching the Internet almost always turns up the solution referring to the Imagick library .
Also, I have verified that this extension is very common for the companies that sell "hosting" to host our applications, have this extension installed, so I have considered that it is a solution that many of us who have a "hosting" can use. " hired.
Objetive
Give an example that when a record is registered (ADD) and a PDF file is provided, the application generates a PNG file with the first page, which will be used to be displayed in LIST and VIEW and as a link button to download the file PDF.
DEMO: https://fhumanes.com/imagick/
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