Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

fmw42 wrote:

It's weird that this is not document or it is very hidden in the documentation.

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/formats/#bmp

Nice, I thought the new docs had more complete info than the old docs, guess I was wrong, thanks.

Jason S wrote:I'm not sure what effect, if any, the -format option has on 'convert'. Try
convert wallpaper.png BMP3:wallpaper.bmp

That worked perfectly, now I can see my command was giving me BMP4 and I needed BMP3 or BMP2.

It's weird that this is not document or it is very hidden in the documentation.

Thanks.

I'm trying to create windows XP wallpaper compatible BMP. After some research I supposed that this would work: convert wallpaper.png -format BMP2 wallpaper.bmp but the output is the same as convert wallpaper.png wallpaper.bmp I'm sure I need BMP2 format and both commands are giving BMP3+ Any ...

For that simple example delay is set to 0 according to gimp, for more complex ones like the real animations I'm creating with the script I get rubbish and the gif goes png.png size. I guess the batch will just read files several times, hope windows cache helps, anyway I will only process in batch ...

So lame that I didn't know the parenthesis trick, I think that was the only thing wrong, the parameter order was being kinda tolerated.

Thanks a lot.

Thanks for the help, I read the page I'm not able to separate all the parameters into settings and commands by myself but I can check every command there and I believe I put them where they should be. So I tried to simplify, moved the settings "delay" and "dispose" before the image, the operations ...

I'm trying to create a gif from small images that are stored on a single png, the "png.png" file size is 1024x1024. convert -crop 32x32+352+800 +repage -dispose 3 -delay 10 "png.png" -crop 32x32+384+800 +repage -dispose 3 -delay 10 "png.png" -page 0x0 -dispose 3 -delay 100 -size 32x32 xc:Transparent ...