Weird clip path behaviour

[SimonMacMullen]

I'm trying to update an application using ImageMagick 5.5.7 to something a bit more up to date. This application needs to convert images in EPS with a clipping path to PNG (with transparency), using the clipping path to define the transparent region. It uses a command line like:

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$ convert -clip -draw "matte 0,0 floodfill" test.eps test.png

This works using 5.5.7 on Windows (and on 5.4.4 in a Debian Woody VM).

Using 6.3.4 (self-compiled on Debian, and on Windows) I get:

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$ convert -clip -draw "matte 0,0 floodfill" test.eps test.png
convert: Segment stack overflow `test.eps'.

...and the image is created, but is black where it should be transparent.

Using 6.2.4 from Debian testing I sometimes get the above error, and sometimes none (but in that case the image is not clipped). It seems to depend on the image.

I'm afraid I can't post the images I'm using publicly, but can email them.

[magick]

We need to extend the draw matte method to deal with CMYK images. We will have a fix for that in a few days. In the mean-time draw in the RGB colorspace with this command:

• convert -colorspace RGB test.eps -clip -draw "matte 0,0 floodfill" test.png

[SimonMacMullen]

Thanks!

Err, the -colorspace option doesn't seem to change things for me with 6.3.4 - I'm still seeing the same stack overflow?

[magick]

We have a patch in ImageMagick 6.3.4-5 beta if you want to give that a try. See ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/beta.