Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Right. Thanks. I guess rtmf="reading [the manual] is fundamental". It also exactly explains my -transparent error: I'd tried -transparent-color "#FFFFFF", not -transparent, but forgot that until investigating your preceding remark. Sorry about that. Trying to fit too many little pieces together ...

Thanks again, Fred. As you probably guessed, I wasn't aware of that delegates.xml file, and (pretty much just for kicks) naively tried changing it to psrgb, which then ran convert for 22mins before I killed it (and switched delegates.xml back to original). But it certainly provides lots of ...

As promised above, I'm following up to "report the outcome after it's working". A rather large 5MB (click only if you really want to see it) animation produced using Fred's suggestion is at > http://www.forkosh.com/decorative/decofweek.gif and the corresponding postscript from which it was convert ...

Thanks, Fred. Those /Usage/basics/ links are indeed easier to read/understand than whatever it was I'd been reading (I'd just tossed a few relevant words at google and browsed through whatever looked good from what it coughed up, but can't recall exactly what that was).

Thanks for the suggestions, whugemann and fmw42. I could pretty easily "loop through" as whugemann suggested, extracting one page at a time and then re-combining them all as an animation. But that would still involve lots of intermediate tmp files to be rm'ed afterwards. And the whole exercise was ...

I can already get the animation I want with > convert -delay 0 -loop 0 eachframe*.gif animation.gif using many eachframe*.gif input files. But what I'd like to do instead of many gif input files, is have one postscript input file that contains many showpage's with one frame on each page. And then ...