Have you guys changed the behavior of "-crop"?

[Herve661]

I've recently upgraded image magick to version 6.3.7

Noe that previously

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convert -resize '200x200>' -crop 100%x50% in.jpg out.jpg

would create just one file (out.jpg), now it creates 2 files, out-0.jpg and out-1.jpg.

To create just one file, use

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convert -resize '200x200>' -crop 100%x50%+0+0 in.jpg out.jpg

[fmw42]

Also add +repage after using -crop to remove the virtual canvas.

See also
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#crop
http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/ ... .php#crop1
http://www.fmwconcepts.com/imagemagick/ ... .php#crop2

[anthony]

It sounds like you upgraded from ImageMagick version 5!!! Congratulations!

The crop change was sorted out in the early days of IM v6 along with the 'do-it-in-order' handling
of command line options that has made IM v6 so much more powerful than IM v5

For details see IM Examples, Cutting and Bordering, Crop
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/

it will cover all the details and special features of the crop command.

[Herve661]

Than you! I'm mainly following Ubuntu LTS here...
Your program is really great and used to resize hundreds of scans every night on our websites...

[anthony]

That is good. Maybe you would like to start a discussion topic giving a summery of what you do with the scans. Perhaps people here can not only learn from your experience, but they may be able to help improve your results as well.