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Hello Everyone!

I'm making thumbnails of documents to my web site ( http://weeb2.net ) using ImageMagick to convert them from PDF to gif animations. However, if a document is hundreds of pages long, the size of the preview can be almost as big as the file itself (even bigger sometimes). So, I would like to limit the length of the preview to maybe 20 first pages.

How is it possible to determine the length of a gif animation or shorten an already made gif animation?

By the way, thanks really much for this program! It's already serving my web site fabulously.


With Best Regards
Jouni

you can select frames of a gif animation using frame indices

convert animation.gif[0-10] new_animation.gif

see Anthony's documentation about animations and basic usage, etc at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/

Thank you very much! I tried to find it from the manual for long time, but for some reason I didn't see it.