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Hey, I'm really confused about this issue but this is what I can gather:

I've been using a script I wrote for months, and suddenly everything stopped working on the 25th. My "convert -version" reports 6.2.8 from August 25th. The error I'm getting is "UnrecognizedLayerType Flatten". My code is basically this:

I didn't upgrade ImageMagick manually so I don't know what's going on, but it seems like a strange coincidence that this version's from the same day it all stopped working.

The IM ChangeLog indicates that flatten was added in version 6.3.2 so you need to upgrade.

Pete

Whoa, okay, I'm sorry if I sound stupid here but this is weird. How could the version have been downgraded? Also, the date given with the "convert -version" command doesn't have anything to do with when the version was released then? Because like I said, it says August 25th, 2010, but it's version 6.2.8.

I'll try upgrading now and let you know.

-flatten exists in that version (it even exists in IM version 3!!!!)

The change was that -flatten was rolled into a compound operator to become -layers flatten

However -flatten still exists as a backward compatible alias to -layers flatten.

Still you are better off upgrading. Hugh numbers of new features and bug fixes have happened since that old version number.