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See IM examples, Windows Usage
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/

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I have searched the examples and documentation and believe I am very close. But, I do not understand something about how DOS uses quotes or ImageMagick syntax. I have working IM batches that I copied the syntax from originally.

I use Watch Directory as my service to set off the process. Due to that certain quotes have to stay in place for IM to get the passed parameters. ImageMagick requires certain things in quotes to recognize the symbols but I think DOS is also interpreting all these quotes. I have tried without single quotes but it assigns each of the code pieces in turn to the variable, not the result of the identify command. Any idea why this is not working or if there is a dos way to get this info from a jpg so I don't have to use the ImageMagick symbols to get it? Thanks for your help!

FOR /F %%x IN ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\identify.exe" -ping -format "%%w" "%WD_FILE%"') DO SET IMGWIDTH=%%x
FOR /F %%y IN ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\identify.exe" -ping -format "%%h" "%WD_FILE%"') DO SET IMGHEIGHT=%%y

IF %IMGWIDTH% LSS %IMGHEIGHT% ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\convert.exe" "%WD_FILE%" -gravity center -extent 1000x1000 "\\harvardtest2\webimages\%WD_FILE_B%.jpg"')
IF %IMGHEIGHT% LSS %IMGWIDTH% ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\convert.exe" "%WD_FILE%" -gravity center -extent 1500x1500 "\\harvardtest2\webimages\%WD_FILE_B%.jpg"')

Thank you for your time and help!

Cory Bonallo

FOR /F %%x IN ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\identify.exe" -ping -format "%%w" "%WD_FILE%"') DO SET IMGWIDTH=%%x
FOR /F %%y IN ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\identify.exe" -ping -format "%%h" "%WD_FILE%"') DO SET IMGHEIGHT=%%y

This should work just fine, but this

IF %IMGWIDTH% LSS %IMGHEIGHT% ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\convert.exe" "%WD_FILE%" -gravity center -extent 1000x1000 "\\harvardtest2\webimages\%WD_FILE_B%.jpg"')
IF %IMGHEIGHT% LSS %IMGWIDTH% ('"C:\Program Files\ImageMagick-6.5.6-Q8\convert.exe" "%WD_FILE%" -gravity center -extent 1500x1500 "\\harvardtest2\webimages\%WD_FILE_B%.jpg"')

should rather be There is no need for single quotes or parantheses here (although the parantheses would do no harm). The single quotes are specific for the FOR /F command; they are not used anywhere else in DOS.

I did try that but it still would not work. The parser was getting confused on the FOR command with all those quotes. I had to use a temp file for the value but I am concerned that it will be over written when running too quickly and the proper value will not be there at the proper time.

This is working:

I did try that but it still would not work. The parser was getting confused on the FOR command with all those quotes.

No, It never does, unless the expression is grammatically incorrect. The DOS batch language may be very crude, but it definitively functions flawless.

I had to use a temp file for the value but I am concerned that it will be over written when running too quickly and the proper value will not be there at the proper time.

No. You can rely on that every statement is finished before the next one starts. My DOS batch scripts are dumping a lot into text files, because this way of proceeding often has advantages. I never met any problems with that.