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i believe that you can use -limit time to restrict how long the convert to be timeout.
But I cannot find an example how to use it.

I was trying to convert multiple page PDF to PNGs and using this following command to limit it to 10seconds:
convert -limit time 10 input.pdf output.png

The process ...

try

convert -density 400 myfile.pdf myfile-%03d.png | convert myfile-*.png -format "%f" info:
myfile-000.png
myfile-001.png
myfile-002.png

It doesn't work if the script runs for the first time.
I receive an error saying
unable to open image `myfile-*.png': No such file or directory @ error ...

filename1=`convert myfile-000.png -format "%t" info:` gives the top of the filename (no suffix)
filename1=`convert myfile-000.png -format "%f" info:` gives the full filename with suffix

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/escape.php

This won't work as I don't know what the PNG will be.
As I ...

I wrote a bash script to watch for pdf in a directory and convert them into png files.
Each pdf may have more than one pages.
Is there an easy way to grab for exactly converted png files?

I used command as

convert -density 400 myfile.pdf myfile-%03d.png

so png files will be:
myfile-000.png ...

Some questions regarding to converting a mutiple page PDF file into multiple PNG files

I have a 3 page PDF file.
Run this command
convert -density 350 -resize 600 myfile.pdf myfile.png
I receive 3 files (myfile-0.png, myfile-1.png and myfile-2.png) which are good.

I wonder how do I:

1 - add ...