function change() { $pdf_file = './pdf/demo.pdf'; $save_to = './jpg/demo.jpg'; //make sure that apache has permissions to write in this folder! (common problem)//execute ImageMagick command 'convert' and convert PDF to JPG with applied settings exec('convert "' . $pdf_file . '" -colorspace RGB -resize 800 "' . $save_to . '"', $output, $return_var); if ($return_var == 0) { //if exec successfuly converted pdf to jpg print "Conversion OK"; } else{ print "Conversion failed.<br />" . $output; } }