I have php code which create pdf thumbnail as follows;
setImageFormat(\"png
With Imagick, you could use base64 encoding:
echo '<img src="data:image/jpg;base64,'.base64_encode($img->getImageBlob()).'" alt="" />';`
However, this method is kind a slow and therefore I recommend generating and saving the image earlier $img->writeImage($path)
.
you can try to display the image by this way:
// start buffering
ob_start();
$thumbnail = $im->getImageBlob();
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo "<img src='data:image/jpg;base64,".base64_encode($contents)."' />";
As I can see there are too many answers which are not accurate enough, so here goes mine:
This will print the image as you are doing it now(by the time of asking this question). As alternative to answer by @Vasil Dakov you should modify the snippet i gave you like this:
<?php
// ... Image generation goes here
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
ob_start();
print $im->getImageBlob();
$the_outputted_image = ob_get_flush();
?>
// Assuming that you use MVC approach and you are storing $the_outputted_image in a object and passing it to the view(ie. index.html or the HTML below the code).
//... Html code of index.html
<img src="data:image/jpg;base64 <?php print $the_outputted_image; ?>" alt="image" title="IMagick Generated Image" />
As another alternative is creating a script to generate the image, save it in some folder ( assuming img/ is the folder) and return only the path+filename+ extension to the file:
<?php
// ... Image generation goes here
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
$filename = 'img/' . md5(microtime()) . '.jpg'// Microtime is just as an example, you should use your own method.
$fp = fopen($filename, "x"); //Creating and opening the file for write-only
$im->writeImageFile($fp); //Writing the image to the file pointer (I would recommend writing it using, fwrite(), because it is binary-safe writing method)
fclose($fp);
?>
// Html
<img src="<?php print $filename; ?>" alt="image" title="IMagick Generated Image" />
documentation for Imagick::writeImageFile
The only solution would be to convert your image to base64 and include it as an embedded base64 image (data:image/png;base64,
). Further reference.
But this isn't supported in IE 6 and 7.
In my case I found out a solution like this:
$im = new Imagick("http://www.yourserver.com/upload/file_name.pdf");
$im->setResolution(300, 300); // if higher image will be good to read
$im->setIteratorIndex(0); // read first page
$im->setImageFormat('jpg');
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
ob_start();
print $im->getImageBlob();
$contents = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();
echo "<img src='data:image/jpg;base64,".base64_encode($contents)."' />"; //output as image
good luck.
Embedding an image using base64 is a COMPLETELY wrong way to go about the problem esp. with something stateless like a php web script.
You should instead use http parameters to have a single php file which can perform two tasks - the default will send html , and the parameter will instruct the php file to print the image. Below is the "standard" way to do it -
<?php
if (!array_key_exists('display',$_GET))
{
print('<html><head></head><body><img src="'.$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].'?display=image"></body></html>');
} else
{
// The display key exists which means we want to display an image
$file ="test.pdf";
$im = new imagick(realpath($file).'[0]');
$im->setImageFormat("png");
$im->resizeImage(200,200,1,0);
header("Content-Type: image/jpeg");
$thumbnail = $im->getImageBlob();
echo $thumbnail;
}
?>