How can one avoid displaying binary characters in a PNG screenshot when using Imagick in PHP?

When using Imagick in PHP to take a screenshot and save it as a PNG image, binary characters may be displayed in the image due to encoding issues. To avoid this, you can set the image format to PNG24 which uses 8 bits per channel instead of PNG8 which uses only 1 bit per channel. This will ensure that the image is saved in a format that does not display binary characters. 

<?php
// Create a new Imagick object
$image = new Imagick();

// Take a screenshot of the webpage
$image->readImageBlob(file_get_contents('http://example.com'));

// Set the image format to PNG24
$image->setImageFormat('PNG24');

// Save the screenshot as a PNG image
$image->writeImage('screenshot.png');

// Destroy the Imagick object
$image->destroy();
?>

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