identify: no decode delegate for this image format image.tif

[Greg Coats]

I am using the Mac OS X binary release of ImageMagick, downloaded today from this web site. While I can successfully start up identify, identify reports that it does not recognize the TIF image format. convert misbehaves in this same way.

identify -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.0 11/03/06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2006 ImageMagick Studio LLC

ls -l image.tif
-rw-r--r-- 1 gregcoat wheel 1947972 Dec 20 18:29 image.tif
file image.tif
image.tif: TIFF image data, little-endian

identify image.tif
identify: no decode delegate for this image format `image.tif'.

Please advise how to use the Mac OS X binary release of ImageMagick to read and write TIF images.
Greg

[magick]

The Mac OS X binary distribution does not have TIFF support included. We recently switched to a universal build so ImageMagick can run on PowerPC and Intel boxes and we're running into problems building a universal build of the TIFF delegate library.

[Greg Coats]

What raster formats are supported in the official ImageMagick binary for Mac OS X? I see that in addition to TIF no longer being supported, PNG is also not supported. Is JPEG2000 supported? What raster formats are supported?

[magick]

To determine which formats are supports, simply type this command:

• idenitfy -list format

[Greg Coats]

I did identify -version and identify -list format and get
Version: ImageMagick 6.3.0 11/03/06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2006 ImageMagick Studio LLC

Format Module Mode Description
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* native blob support

So, apparently the official Mac OS X version of ImageMagick does not read nor write ANY raster formats. I fail to see how that is useful to anyone.

[magick]

Did you set the MAGICK_HOME environment variable? You may need to set the DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment as well. See QuickStart.txt.