Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

If you put up a sample or two, suggestions can be more specific. Here are four examples: https://tomhrichardson.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cheryl-soft-light-and-shy-smile-1975-498x720.jpg https://tomhrichardson.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/cheryl-smiling-close-up-balboa-park-san-diego-1975-730x474 ...

I have several image files, of 1970s photos taken several years apart and developed in different places, that all have the same problem. Most colors in the photo—bright yellow, green, blue, pink—are fine or are only slightly off. No problem. White (such as the white border of the photo) has turned in ...

The "verbose" outputs show that your "transparent" PNG is color-type 2, and does not have a tRNS chunk, so it's opaque. But it has 16-bit samples, so maybe GWS has trouble reading 16-bit PNGs. The other output is 8-bit RGBA, which could be transparent but only if any of the pixels have a non-255 ...

Here's my PDF:

http://tomhrichardson.files.wordpress.c ... bcover.pdf

I'll keep it up for a week (through August 19).

Just for comparison, here are the numbers for "big image.png" (see original post), which meets all specifications, including being viewable by Graphic Workshop Professional: Image: big image.png Format: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Mime type: image/png Class: DirectClass Geometry: 3924x2775+0+0 ...

Can you ... identify -verbose result.png >r.txt ... and paste the contents of r.txt here, between [ code ] and [ /code ]? You mean for the "transparent" result.png? Image: result.png Format: PNG (Portable Network Graphics) Mime type: image/png Class: DirectClass Geometry: 3924x2775+0+0 Resolution ...

convert -density 300 "big image.pdf" -background white -flatten -alpha off result.png ^^^^ Results in "transparent" PNG file when viewed in Graphic Workshop Very strange. What version of IM, on what platform? Can you post your PDF somewhere? I'll post the PDF later today. I have IM 6.8.9-Q16 and ...

To snibgo: I tried your suggestion. convert -density 300 "big image.pdf" -background white -flatten -alpha off result.png ^^^^ Results in "transparent" PNG file when viewed in Graphic Workshop convert -density 300 "big image.pdf" -background white -alpha off -flatten result.png ^^^^ Text is degraded ...

To fmw42-- The first code results in once again the PDF's background layer showing up as transparent in the PNG. The second code results in a strange result. I normally view graphics using Graphic Workshop (from Alchemy Mindworks), and this second code results in a PNG file that has a normal ...

This is my first post. For the experts reading, this will be deadly dull, and I invite you to skip to the last paragraph. Mainly, I'm writing for other newbies who have landed here after a Google search, and they're desperate for answers to the same problems that I had. It took two full days from ...