Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

solved! turns out my problem was actually with libtiff. the version that ubuntu uses is not recent enough to properly grab the clipping path from certain files. i had to update to the latest libtiff and compile imagemagick against that. then it could see clipping path on both.

upon further investigation, i think this may be a bug in imagemagick that is missing the clipping path in the EXIF ( not XMP) header information on some tiffs. in particular, i was able to manually parse out the 8BIM metadata in both types of tiffs i have. using exiv2 , i saw both had a key " Exif ...

i have been banging my head against the wall with the problem for about a week. i suspect the problem lies in (what appears to me to be) adobe's habit of radically and frequently changing the content of its XMP metadata. that said, i am still hoping someone has a fix either via imagemagick ...