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Convert a set of .ps files into animated gif

Posted: 2011-12-08T02:00:10-07:00
by polly
Hi everybody,

I'm pretty new to ImageMagick but I love its powerfull commandlines already. I just have a problem which I can not fix: I have a set of .ps files and I want to make an animated gif movie with them. What I did so far is converting them into png and then converting the png into an animated gif. That works fine but I want to skip the process of converting them to png. I'm using this commandline

convert -delay 1 -density 150 -background white *.ps animation.gif

and I have two problems:
1) the background is still transparent and not white. But I want it to be white. When I use the -flatten command which usually solves the problem it flattens ALL the images into one :(
2) even without the flatten keywort it merges the images. Not all into one but it overplotts them so each animation phase is a superposition of the previous ones ...

Does anyone have an idea what I have to change?
Thank you and Cheers.

Polly

Re: Convert a set of .ps files into animated gif

Posted: 2011-12-08T02:31:27-07:00
by polly
Ok I solved the second problem: with -dispose Background it doesn't overplott all images anymore... but I still don't know how to get a white background.
Any help?