Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

snibgo, the command line I gave was a JPEG, yes, but in my explanation I clarified that if you try the same trick with a GIF you run into the issue I mentioned if it's animated. Just clarifying - I appreciate the advice on the proper use of clone. I'll try it out and report back.

AHA! If I do this, is the interframe delay timing information preserved?

Thanks!

We use command lines like this to resize an image to various sizes in a single command so we don't decode the original image over and over. It's quite fast: convert input.jpg -resize '1600x1280>' '(' +clone -resize '1140x1440>' -write big.jpg '+delete' ')' '(' +clone -resize '760x760>' -write small ...

I downloaded the official Mac binaries today from: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/binary-releases.php#macosx They do not support JPEG or PNG. They work fine with GIF, but that's not all that useful by itself (: I have verified that if I use binaries built with macports there is no problem ...