Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks so much for the quick replies!! -extent was what I was looking for... it should meet our needs. When I test the trivial case of using -extent to output the exact same size as the original, my file size GROWS by 9%, instead of shrinking by 5%. At least that could be attributed to data ...

Hi all, I want to take a huge JPG and create a new, larger JPG consisting of the original JPG surrounded by a solid-color border. The new JPG should have the same IPTC metadata as the original (especially same colorspace). There should be no loss of quality for the original image in the center. Can ...

I eventually found PerlMagick code to do what I needed. To simulate writing & re-reading everything from disk, I use: $p_sRGB = Image::Magick->new; $p_sRGB->BlobToImage( $image->ImageToBlob() ); Calling ImageToBlob() then BlobToImage() will do an in-memory "flush" of the image data. In my particular ...

I have very limited & specialized experience with PerlMagick, but in our environment, we typically have to install an older version of Perl to be able to get PerlMagick. We upgraded our Windows 2003 servers about six weeks ago. We would have liked to run Perl 5.16, but we had to run Perl 5.14.2 to ...

Hi Fred, Thanks so much for response. I'd already tried convert/-compose but, for me, they generated identical outputs to composite -dissolve and composite -watermark. So I don't think convert/-compose will help. Just now I also tried setting the colorspace to RGB & sRGB, but that did not cause my ...

Hi, The "composite -watermark" command is not respecting the partial transparency of my PNG watermark. I'm using ImageMagick 6.7.7-8 2012-06-20 Q16 (i.e., latest version) on Windows 2008. Source JPG: http://www.cuttingedgephotography.co.uk/CE-IM/source.jpg Partially-transparent PNG watermark: http ...