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I was under the impression that -channel a and -channel o meant the same thing --- opacity. Am I wrong about this. Have we started to distinguish the two?
Nevertheless, the following does not work either in 6.8.7.5 Q16 Mac OSX
convert xc:"rgba(100,101,102,0)" -channel a -format "%[fx:maxima]\n" info:
0.4
convert xc:"rgba(100,101,102,1)" -channel a -format "%[fx:maxima]\n" info:
0.4
convert xc:"rgba(100,101,102,0.3)" -channel a -format "%[fx:maxima]\n" info:
0.4
convert xc:"rgba(100,101,102,0)" -channel o -format "%[fx:maxima]\n" info:
0.4
convert xc:"rgba(100,101,102,1)" -channel o -format "%[fx:maxima]\n" info:
0.4
convert xc:"rgba(100,101,102,0.3)" -channel o -format "%[fx:maxima]\n" info:
0.4
As far as I know, alpha and opacity in this context should mean the same thing. But ".a" in my OP examples returns a number meaning transparency, and ".o" returns 0.4. I hope that after the fix they will both return the numbers that I put into the alpha channel.