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Hi Fred, Thanks for trying this pesky file on your system. Looks like it is behaving as badly on Mac. I also tested it on http://www.imagemagick.org/MagickStudio/scripts/MagickStudio.cgi and got Internal Server Error. This problem can unpredictably affect any application that is using IM to process ...

Fred, Thanks for the prompt response! I read the link and looked at your suggestion. The -quiet and -regard-warnings options seem to be opposite each other. Also, when I tweak your example to convert this corrupted image, I see both ImageMagick error and custom message from double pipe (did not know ...

It does seem to be corrupt, and this is the point: being able to handle corrupted images gracefully without crash.
Analogy: if one tries to process text file as jpeg, imagemagick currently detects the problem and issues error message without crashing, thus allowing the client application to recover.

$ convert MainMR171004.jpg resultImage.jpg
convert: Memory allocation failed `No such file or directory' @ string.c/AcquireStringInfo/173.


Running ImageMagick 6.5.7-8 2010-12-02 Q16 on Ubuntu 10.04.3 (Lucid)

The file is loaded from: http://www.costumes4less.com/Prodimages ... 171004.jpg