I agree with the above comment. A search has found Imagick but I am reluctant to install yet another piece of software on my server without clear instructions.
The plugin sounds good but with no reviews to rely on, there needs to be more info here please.
BTW – great documentation otherwise 🙂
Same issue here. Plugins looks great but I don’t feel comfortable with the unsatisfied requirement of Imagick (Imagick is not supported)…
@faxlain, @now4dw, @damoweb
Here is some basic information about Imagick – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ImageMagick
Briefly – it is image manipulation library for PHP, which is highly required, because low-level pdf-to-jpeg convertation works through it.
Imagick is a server software. Unfortunately, this means that Imagick itself cannot be included to the plugin, installed through the WordPress interface or WordPress plugins system.
To make it work, someone, you, your server administrator or your hosting provider, should install (or enable, if it’s already installed) this software on your server. If your site is maintained by some administrator, he or she already knows how to install ImageMagick and Imagick libraries. Otherwise the installation could be done through cPanel in some cases and you could try to install it.
Here are few examples of installation instructions (these links were just the first on top of the Google search results):
http://www.dreamcreative.net/2013/07/install-imagemagick-on-a-cpanel-server/
http://www.webdesignblog.asia/operating-systems/linux-os/updateinstall-imagemagick-centos-5-centos-6/
http://stackoverflow.com/a/18150533/741782
Sometimes your hosting provider could restrict installation of additional software. In this case you can contact them for further instructions and details.
If you have VPS (Virtual Private Server), the Imagick can be installed through the SSH and command line interface.
BTW – great documentation otherwise 🙂
Thank you
We have following your suggestions and still can not get this to work. Please see our message below:
We have attempted (to no avail) to get imagemagick working on our server. It is conflicting with the following plugin: https://wordpress.org/plugins/pdf-light-viewer.
We keep receiving the following error: PDF Light Viewer Plugin: requirements not met, please check plugin settings page for more information.
When visiting the plugin settings page – the following message has a red “X” – Imagick is not supported.
We have attempted to deactive the following plugins but still receive the above message: “ImageMagick Engine” and “ImageMagick Sharpen Resized Images”
What we have done:
Installed an IMAGEMAGIC ENGINE plugin. This seems to be ok.
I ran:
sudo apt-get install imagemagic php5-imagick on the server too.
I also ran:
Php5-imagick
Imagmagick
Using apt-get install command.
Reran again using –fix-missing and it didn’t change anything.
Still get same error message.
Also tried installing imagickengine plugin, that didn’t work either
Any help would be appreciated.
Have installed Imagick on our hosting server – no go, still says Imagick is not supported.
We have done similar to the above.
@kopfconsulting, @ajamm
Did you try pecl install imagick ? When I worked with Centos 6.4, this step was required to work with Imagick from PHP.
Some Imagick installations also require to add “extension=imagick.so” to your php.ini.
Hope this will help
Can i install imagick in localhost?
@romnicksusa yes, you can. What OS do you plan to use?
