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Hi, I am currently running ImageMagick 6.4.3 Q8 on Windows Server 2003.

I am trying to convert a PDF with 500 pages to a TIFF image, but I keep getting the following error:

"convert: Error fetching directory count. `TIFFLinkDirectory'."

This occurs through the usage of the following command:

convert -colorspace RGB -density 300 foo.pdf foo.tiff

However, if I use a smaller density, like 150 everything works fine.
I`ve been reading the forum and I came accross an answer where it was said that I should use -limit Memory 1mb -limit Map 1mb, but this will slow down the process.

I was wondering if there is any way around this problem other than the limit solution.

Thanks in advance,

Thiago

Try this command and let us know if it works for you:

• convert -limit memory 1mb -limit map 1mb -colorspace RGB -density 300 foo.pdf foo.tiff

Hi,

EDIT: I just tested that command limiting the memory and the map to 1mb and it did not work. Any suggestions?

Thanks again,

Thiago

I forgot to mention, for my specific problem I could also generate a TIFF per page of the original PDF.

Is there anyway how to do this in a SINGLE command?

Thanks

You could try to see if the command works with the latest ImageMagick release, 6.4.4-10 otherwise try converting one page at a time:

• convert image.pdf[0] image0.tif
  convert image.pdf[1] image1.tif