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In reference to your sips utility not working via PHP. Are you using MAMP?
First try running this script from PHP. You should add it to /usr/bin and change the permissions, etc.

[code]#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/sips -s format png $1 –out $2.png 2> /tmp/error[/code]

Pass in your input and output files accordingly. Look at the error log. It appears that I was suffering from a symbol collision with a MAMP-installed shared library. The PDFLib folks suffer from the same issue. Here’s their take on it:

[code]
PDFlib with XAMPP or MAMP on Mac OS X. If you add the PDFlib PHP extension to
your php.ini on a Mac OS X Intel box with XAMPP Mac OS X 0.6.3 installed, the following
error message appears:
dyld: NSLinkModule() error
dyld: Symbol not found: __cg_jpeg_resync_to_restart
Referenced from: /System/Library/Frameworks/ApplicationServices.framework/Versions/A/
Frameworks/ImageIO.framework/Versions/A/ImageIO
Expected in: /Applications/xampp/xamppfiles/lib/libjpeg.62.dylib
The PDFlib extension is linked against the ApplicationServices Framework, and XAMPP
changes the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH. This combination confuses the dynamic link editor.
We detected that commenting out DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in xamppfiles/bin/envvars cures
this problem.
A similar problem arises with MAMP. To cure the problem with MAMP comment out
DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in Library/bin/envvars.
[/code]

Of course, sips is also linked to the ApplicationServices Framework. So I pulled the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH and restarted apache and it works. I’m not sure what the side effects are from doing this. (Like GD might have stopped working, for all I know.)

And, yes, I do remember there were some changes to the jpeg library around 10.4. Apple shipped with an old version (and linked some things statically, other dynamically). I remember running across this issue a year or two ago when I was getting ImageMagick and GraphViz working from source.

Hope this helps.

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