使用Imagemagick和PHP将PDF纵向转换为图像横向

Question

I want to convert a multipages PDF to a series of png files, while the PDF is portrait and png file is landscape, using imagemagick. I have achieve the conversion from PDF portrait to png protrait(code attached below). But have no idea how to make portrait image to landsacpe with no distortion, (not rotate the image). Can anyone kindly help me? Thanks.

$infile=$direcory."/Test.pdf";
$images=new Imagick();
$bodercolor=new ImagickPixel("white");

$images->setResolution(220, 220);
$images->readimage($infile);
$images->setimageformat("png");

foreach ($images as $i=>$image){    
   //set backgroud color = white
   $image->setimagebordercolor($bodercolor);
   $image->borderimage($bodercolor, 0, 0);

   $image->writeimage($direcory."/test-pg".$i.".png");  
}

$images->clear();
$images->destroy();

Actually, what I want is rotate the vertical page to horizontal with the objects on it have almost no changes. Like what we are able to do using Microsoft Word/PowerPoint when you change page orientation to landscape.

Answer 1

Well, your task then seems to be two steps: gettng png from pdf (which you say you have done) and getting png image to change sizes.

Question yourself what do you want to do - rotate the vertical image to be horizontal? Crop some part of the vertical image and fit it into horizontal space?

What you need to do is to decide the answer to the above question. After that - take a pen, piece of paper and draw the process. Draw the vertical rectangle, then fill in some area that is you content on that page, then rotate/transform/resize/fit and etc - whatever your answer was that content area into horizontal rectangle.

After that you can write your code - deal with pixel width/height, rotation angle, fitting the area to the horizontal space and etc.

Answer 2

When you change a slide's orientation in PowerPoint, it recomputes the whole layout: centered elements are shifted left or right based on the new width, multi-line text is re-wrapped, and so on. This is possible because PowerPoint knows how the elements are supposed to be formatted.

You can't do that with a PDF file because it doesn't contain that kind of high-level formatting information; a PDF is basically just a description of where to put ink on paper. Reading a PDF file, you don't know that a particular line of text is supposed to be centered; you just know the (X, Y) coordinates where its top-left corner should be positioned. If one line of text appears below another, there's nothing that tells you whether words at the beginning of the second line should be moved to the end of the first when the page gets wider (eg word-wrapping) or if they're unrelated items (like separate bullet points) that should not be combined.

Fundamentally, a PDF is more like a picture than an editable document.