How to execute ImageMagick to convert only the first page of the multipage PDF to JPEG?

Question

How do I execute ImageMagick\'s convert if I want a JPEG from the first page only of a multi-page PDF?

Answer 1

To further the answer by @KenS, Here are a more few details, particularly for Windows users.

You can download GhostScript for Windows here: http://www.ghostscript.com/download/gsdnld.html. The default installation path for the executable is "C:\Program Files\gs\gs910\bin\gswin64c.exe".

The command-line arguments listed above are correct in Windows too, but here are a few more that I found useful:

gswin64c.exe -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -r96 -sDEVICE=jpeg -sOutputFile=""
             -dFirstPage=1 -dLastPage=1 ""

I also created a batch file that wraps this up nicely and posted it to my GitHub account. It makes it a lot easier to create thumbnails for multiple .pdf files too. Check it out at pdf2jpg.bat.