ER: natural numbering of images in display

[yecril71pl]

When you display a multi-image TIFF, here is what I get in the window title:

… [0 of 2]
… [1 of 2]

It is quite confusing. I would rather have:

… [1 of 2]
… [2 of 2]

Version: ImageMagick 6.6.7-9 2011-02-23 Q16

[magick]

The format is 'frame of total-#-of-frames'. Some images are extracted from an image sequence and may have a frame / scene # of say 64 with 10 frames. In this example you get [64 of 10]. We'd like to continue to display the frame # since it can be quite meaningful, however, we could change the 'of' to something less misleading. Any suggestions?

[yecril71pl]

You are obviously comparing incompatible things here. How about dropping "of 10"? Because "of 10" clearly wants an ordinal number, not a page symbol. It is not a question of wording; this juxtaposition is invalid, and giving the total without letting the user know the material position is useless.

[anthony]

Actually I am looking at page/scene numbering in IM images (as part of trying to fix some percent escapes problems in -set functions (Set only ever sees one image so %s and %p is always 0!)

It seems to me that IM is only storing one number in the image meta-data the 'scene' number from when the image was last read, or the last -scene option. That number is important and should be preserved.

But it does not seem to have a way of storing what image index, this image has in the current image sequence!
That number is different and can be very important.