Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks to both of you. I agree, it is a shame - so i am, right in this moment, updating the packages on the server. In a few minutes i will be able to use the newest available version of imagemagick (according to emerge, this is version 6.4.0.6).

I will post back with my results.

Its funny I have had somebody else today talking to me about a similar problem with ^ but he has an up to date version so it should have worked. The problem may be that he is using IM with php on a windows PC . At least with php you can write another piece of code checking the image size and so putting the variables into the IM command quite easily.

Okay guys. Final call!

My own uncautious behaviour led me to update IM on the webserver, while the whole tool was being developed on my local machine. I do not know why the dumbness caught my mind, but yeah - i sat there for 30 minutes emerging the new imagemagick version plus dependencies on the server, then finally realizing: OH BOY, THIS TOOL DOES NOT EVEN USE THE WEBSERVER !!

After forgiving myself, i started to realize that in fact i was using a different IM version than the one i stated in the post. I updated it. Indeed, the local machine is a windows machine, so IM is the windows variant and the ^ operator just does not work. I tried and tried.

Finally, after sitting down with a fresh brainsen, i caught the idea of the whole thing and finally found my solution, trying out with -resize x236 and -resize 236x - chosen according to if the target is landscape or portrait. Finally the script works fine and i feel released.

Thank you for your precious help!

Cheers.

Note that on Windows ^ is the escape character. Thus to use -resize with ^ your need ^^, eg

convert image -resize 236x236^^ output

see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#windows for other Windows specific issues.