Possible bug writing small .gif images

[odrm]

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$ convert -version
Version: ImageMagick 6.6.9-1 2011-04-04 Q8 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC
Features: OpenMP OpenCL  

Small images with a transparent background are incorrectly saved with a black background. To reproduce:

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$ convert -size 16x16 xc:none -fill blue -draw 'rectangle 4,4 8,8' s.gif
$ identify -verbose s.gif
...
  Histogram:
       230: (  0,  0,  0,255) #000000 black
         1: (  0,  0,  0,  0) #00000000 none
        25: (  0,  0,255,255) #0000FF blue
...

The transparency wasn't saved, but was replaced with black. For a larger image, this doesn't appear to happen:

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$ convert -size 32x32 xc:none -fill blue -draw 'rectangle 4,4 8,8' m.gif
$ identify -verbose m.gif
...
  Histogram:
       999: (  0,  0,  0,  0) #00000000 none
        25: (  0,  0,255,255) #0000FF blue
...

[magick]

We'll add a patch to fix this problem to the next point release of ImageMagick. Thanks.

[sas]

I might be hitting the same bug (also using ImageMagick 6.6.9-1).

In my case it doesn't replace transparent pixels with black, however, but rather with the "Alpha" background color saved with the image:

bullet.png

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$  identify -verbose bullet.png | grep "Alpha: "
  Alpha: rgba(255,0,0,0)   #FF000000

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$  convert bullet.png bullet.gif

--> bullet.gif: (Also note the top-left pixel being set to grey)

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$  identify -verbose bullet.gif | grep "Alpha: "
  Alpha: none   #00000000

This happens to me for images of size 10 x 25px or smaller, but not with larges ones.

[fmw42]

The following works fine for me under IM 6.6.9.4 Q16 Mac OSX Tiger.



convert -size 16x16 xc:none -fill blue -draw 'rectangle 4,4 8,8' tmp.gif

identify -verbose tmp.gif

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Format: GIF (CompuServe graphics interchange format)
  Class: PseudoClass
  Geometry: 16x16+0+0
  Resolution: 72x72
  Print size: 0.222222x0.222222
  Units: Undefined
  Type: PaletteMatte
  Endianess: Undefined
  Colorspace: RGB
  Depth: 8/1-bit
...
  Histogram:
       231: (  0,  0,  0,  0) #00000000 none
        25: (  0,  0,255,255) #0000FF blue
  Colormap: 2
         0: (  0,  0,255,255) #0000FF blue
         1: (  0,  0,  0,  0) #00000000 none

[sas]

After upgrading to ImageMagick 6.6.9-4 2011-04-11 Q16, it works as expected now. Great!

convert -size 16x16 xc:none -fill blue -draw 'rectangle 4,4 8,8' tmp.gif

That probably always worked, the problem was only with images with width ≤10px and height ≤ 25px (at least for me).

[anthony]

Small GIF files with transparency is still broken!!!!

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   convert -size 9x9 xc:none png: | convert - -scale 1000% show:

will show a transparent image which is what I asked for.

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   convert -size 9x9 xc:none gif: | convert - -scale 1000% show:

shows an all black image but for a single transparent pixel in the top-left

[anthony]

This is still broken!!!!

[fmw42]

This is still broken!!!!

see also viewtopic.php?f=1&t=21583

[magick]

We can reproduce the problem you posted and have a patch in ImageMagick 6.7.8-9 Beta. Thanks.