`identify -verbose -ping` now runs slow

[spieler]

In previous versions, when identify was called with -ping and -verbose at the same time, the whole verbose listing was displayed but some of the information like number of colors, etc. was incomplete because -ping caused it to run really fast!

I'm trying to determine if a tiff is a monochrome image. I could check the number of colors, but that reads the whole image. If I could check the compression easily, that would be sufficient. Unfortunately when I now run with -ping and -verbose, -verbose overrides -ping and a quick result does not happen.

Could you revert the functionality so that when -ping is used it is done quickly? I do realize there's a conflict between -verbose and -ping. If -ping is used, could you just not display certain fields such as the number of colors, histogram, and the ilk?

Alternatively, or possibly additionally, could you add a compression type attribute to the -format flag for identify?

I did just download the latest win32 exe 6.3.2 02/23/07 Q8 and it is running the same way.

As always, thanks for all your great help!

[magick]

We added -format %C to return the compression type. Its available in ImageMagick 6.3.3 Beta sometime tommorrow.

[spieler]

Wow, you people are quick!

Is there any chance of still making identify a little smarter so it does run quicker? I miss getting the verbose information quickly.

For now, I'd be content in hearing it's at least somewhere on your to do list.

Thanks,
Gary

[magick]

Ok, we'll have a speed up for -ping -verbose by tommorrow.