which libs for clipping path recognition

[axelrose]

Hello all,

I have one installation where "identify -verbose with-clip.jpg" doesn't show any
clipping path whereas another installation shows such a path on the same test image.

The working installation is from MacPorts and uses libexpat and has no librsvg.
The failing installation is using libxml2.

Which libraries are essential to recognize the clipping path?

Thanks, Axel.

[axelrose]

(edit)

Perhaps this is not a library issue.

I debugged further and found that in "property.c"

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  profile=GetImageProfile(image,"8bim");

doesn't return any profile.

Does anybody have an idea why this particular "8bim" profile doesn't seem to be extractable?
After building "make check" doesn't report any error.
How could I continue debugging?

Regards, Axel

[axelrose]

After reading a few other threads in this forum which mention issues with 'iptc' and '8bim'
profiles I retried with an older versions, using the same build script as before.

6.6.3-10 works fine
6.6.6-3 doesn't work

There is no need to have librsvg or xml support.

I suggest the test routines are expanded to reveal this problem earlier.

Regards, Axel.

[magick]

Can you post a URL to with-clip.jpg? We'll need to reproduce the problem and we'll follow up with a patch in the next few days. Thanks.

[axelrose]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/84530/IM/with-clip.jpg

> ImageMagick-6.6.3-10/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg | grep svg
<svg width="100" height="100">
</svg>

> ImageMagick-6.6.6-3/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg | grep svg
>

[magick]

Thanks, we'll get a patch in the next point release of ImageMagick.

[anthony]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/84530/IM/with-clip.jpg

> ImageMagick-6.6.3-10/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg | grep svg
<svg width="100" height="100">
</svg>

> ImageMagick-6.6.6-3/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg | grep svg
>

Of course grep will not show any lines between the start and end SVG lines. Thye don't contain the text 'svg'.
Try this..

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   ImageMagick-6.6.6-3/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg  | sed -n '/<svg/,$p /<\/svg/q'

[axelrose]

I'm using "identify -verbose" just for demonstration. The problem shows up with a different test easily:

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> ImageMagick-6.6.6-3/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg  | grep -i clip
Image: /Users/ar/work/censhare-projects/rewe/with-clip.jpg
> ImageMagick-6.6.3-10/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg  | grep -i clip
Image: /Users/ar/work/censhare-projects/rewe/with-clip.jpg
  Clipping path: 

Your command returns with an "sed" error message

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> ImageMagick-6.6.3-10/bin/identify -verbose with-clip.jpg  | sed -n '/<svg/,$p /<\/svg/q'
sed: 1: "/<svg/,$p /<\/svg/q": extra characters at the end of p command

It would be nice if there were some explicit command to extract the clipping path from any image as SVG.

Regards, Axel.

[anthony]

applogies put a ';' after the 'p'

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... | sed -n '/<svg/,$p; /<\/svg/q'

[axelrose]

Thank you for your kind correction!

[axelrose]

Issue is resolved with 6.6.6-5

Thanks, Axel.