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Hi,
I know that the new imagemagick V7 has a "new" script engine but I ca not see any documentation related to it...
I have some DOS batch and even shell scripts that I would like to convert into the new script format in order to unify them.

How to pass a argument | varaiables to the new script ...

Thanks for the fast reply.

In a nutshell: the function works the same way both with "," and "x" ...
the possibility of changing the brightness is tru the second argument.

PS . I only showed the "spaces" in the example values for better compreension in post... :)

Thanks again for the fast reply ...

Hi,
recently I was experimenting some tricks with Imagemagick and stumbled with the
-sigmoidal-contrast function....

None the less in the "usage" docs it appears called with "-sigmoidal-contrast value1 , value2 % "
In the "Main documentation doc" it shows up as "-sigmoidal-contrast value x value2 ...

After downloadling and trying the latest Windows binary compilation ( 6.7.7-5 Q16 ) dowloaded on 01 06 2012 .

I get this error if I call "convert" : "Unable to find CORE_RL_magick_.dll" ...

I have tried the usual suspects : PATH var ; Visual Studio 2010 distributable files ...

No sucess ...

So ...

It worked with the xc: option ...
and something like this :
Thanks ...

I am trying to use a small script with the latest version 6.7.6 in windows ...
to calculate the gamma value something like


for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('convert %1 -format "%%[fx:(log(mean)/log(0.5))]" info: ') DO set gamma=%%a
for /f "tokens=*" %%a in ('convert null: -format "%%[fx: mgama= %gamma ...

After some serious cleanup I am now able to compile correctly IM 6.7.6-4 correctly ...
Thanks for the fast help ...

Changing subject:
how can I verify if IM is using the JP2 jpeg library or the conventional one ?

Yes...
I did read the previous document ... and I even did compile the 6.7.0 or so IM version ...
for instance I get this : ( no matter being in VS2005 or VS2010 )

Error 1 error C2143: syntax error : missing ')' before '->' D:\ImageMagick-source\zlib\gzio.c 503 1 CORE_zlib

I get several errors ...

Just to report that I am unable to compile ImageMagick in Windows...

At first I thought that the problem was VStudio8 ( 2005 ) ...
Updated it to VStudio 2010 ... Same problem ...
I am getting the files from the main repository in
"http://www.imagemagick.org/download/windows/"
dated with 04-04 ...

Well thanks for the fast answer ...
I suppose my problem is that "-compose Minusdst -composite" works in pairs of images ...
Perhaps would be a good idea do implicitly write something about it in de "usage" docs ?

Changing subject : I will try the "-flatten" idea approach ...

thanks...

First, I do not know if this is the place for this topic but here it goes ...
using Imagemagick in windows tru CLI .

I am trying to make a script in order to correct some images based on this idea :
http://ftp2.bmtmicro.com/dlc/Multi-Zone_Adjustment.pdf
I have partially made ( rough approach ...

The first command call : " convert 67444.tif 67444.jpg"
reports that ImageMagick does not "know" hot to handle the tif image file ....
So it reports: "no decode delegate for this image format ...
It seems that imageMagick does not know how to identify the TIF subtype ...
TIF format is simply a ...

I did have something similar to this problem
but I have solved by calling "convert.exe"
several times getting the values (size) as output , putting them in a variable
and then "feeding" convert.exe a second time with the those values.

Made something like a batch script.
But a problem arouse ...

I do not know if this is the right place ( in the forum that is )
to ask if convert.exe is able to "simulate" a "loca constrast" filter ...

What I am asking is something similar to "Tone Mapping" algorithms but in a simpler form.
Where do I start ?

Simply putting :
I have several photos that ...

hi, after some more fidling I have found that the RAW image is read correclty with Irfanview ( the original program that made the image ... )
with the following options :
24 BPP ( 3bytes per pixel ) ; Color order: RGB ( 32bit RGBA) ; Interleaved (RGB) ...
But I have to "feed" the correct size first ...