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gigharborjim
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access to commands

Post by gigharborjim »

This should be simple but the solution is eluding me. I am a new user to Imagemagick. I can't access the commands on the windows command line. I installed Imagemagick with the system path, and if I execute "path" it is at the front of my path. But I can't access any of the commands.
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What version did you install? If it was v7, did you tick the box to install legacy applications (convert etc)? What commands have you tried? Have you tried "magick"?
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I installed 7.02-4 Q16. I don't remember ticking anything other than system path. I am trying to use the "convert" command.
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If you did not install the (IM 6) legacy code at install, then try

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magick convert ....
or just

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magick ...
See http://imagemagick.org/script/porting.php#cli

IM 7 is a major upgrade and relatively new. Syntax has changed so that magick replaces convert. Many of the docs were created for IM 6 using convert, e.g. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/
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Post by gigharborjim »

That did the trick. Thank you very much. I wouldn't have thought to do that....
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