Create Thumbnail of ONLINE PDF for first page only using Imagick - php

Question

I tried to make a thumbnail of a pdf file which is hosted on another server. My current code is:
<?php
$im = new imagick("http://www.d3publisher.us/Walkthroughs/Naruto_NC_3_DS.pdf");
$im->setImageFormat('jpg');
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
echo $im;
?>
The problem is that code is only generating thumbnail for LAST PAGE of the pdf file. How can I make a thumbnail for first page only? I tried to add [0] at the imagick line.
$im = new imagick("http://www.d3publisher.us/Walkthroughs/Naruto_NC_3_DS.pdf[0]");
but it didn't work. It only work for local pdf file, i.e:
$im = new imagick("my-pdf-file.pdf[0]");
Please help me solve this problem.. Thanks..

Answer 1

You'll need to reset the active image to the first page. This can be done with Imagick::setIteratorIndex.
<?php
$im = new imagick("http://www.d3publisher.us/Walkthroughs/Naruto_NC_3_DS.pdf");
$im->setIteratorIndex(0);
$im->setImageFormat('jpg');
header('Content-Type: image/jpeg');
echo $im;
?>

Answer 2

Try...
$im->setImageIndex(0); //this will return 1th page of the pdf file
$im->setImageFormat('jpg');

Answer 3

"This can be done with Imagick::setIteratorIndex. .."
..or not. Simply has no effect . Setting it to one crashes something, setting it to 0 gets the last page..
function make_thumbnail($filename)
{
try
{
$imagick= new Imagick($filename);
}
catch(ImagickException $e)
{
// failed to make a thimbynail. what now?
// load up our trusty truetype font png instead?
$imagick->destroy();
return "0"; // shove any rubbish in the db - it will just say no image available when asked.
}
$imagick->setIteratorIndex(0);// rewind to first page or image of a multi series
$imagick->setImageFormat("png"); // turn it into a png
$imagick = $imagick->flattenImages(); // remove any transparency
$imagick->scaleImage(300,0); //resize...to less than 300px wide
$d = $imagick->getImageGeometry();
$h = $d['height'];
if($h > 300)
$imagick->scaleImage(0,300);
$imagick->setImageCompression(\Imagick::COMPRESSION_UNDEFINED);
$imagick->setImageCompressionQuality(0);
$imagick->setIteratorIndex(0);
$a = $imagick->getImageBlob(); // output as bytestream
$imagick->destroy();
return $a;
}