Problem using for loop to round edges

[dreadpiratelynx]

Just found this awesome piece of software yesterday, but I've spent the better part of the last several hours trying to figure out how to make a batch file to round the corners on multiple files at once (well, sequentially, but whatever, you know what I mean).

I pulled the code directly from here, and it works perfectly well if I manually enter the file name, but as soon as I try using a for loop, i get a "-compose was unexpected at this time" error.

The code I'm getting this error with is as follows:

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for %%f in (*.png) do (
convert "%%f" ^
( +clone -alpha extract ^
-draw "fill black polygon 0,0 0,15 15,0 fill white circle 15,15 15,0" ^
( +clone -flip ) -compose Multiply -composite ^
( +clone -flop ) -compose Multiply -composite ) ^
-alpha off -compose CopyOpacity -composite "%%f"
)

Anyone have any clue as to what's going on/how I can fix it? Using Windows 7 btw.

[HugoRune]

seeing as the first -compose is just after the first ")", try escaping braces inside the command with ^) and ^(

Edit:
but don't start lines with "^(", use at least a space in front of ^

[Bonzo]

I wonder if you would be better using mogrify instead of convert - it seems mogrify will not do the job due to image limitations

[dreadpiratelynx]

seeing as the first -compose is just after the first ")", try escaping braces inside the command with ^) and ^(

Edit:
but don't start lines with "^(", use at least a space in front of ^

Thanks! Worked like a charm. Just curious as to the reason the escape characters weren't necessary when manually entering a file name, but are here...

[anthony]

I wonder if you would be better using mogrify instead of convert - it seems mogrify will not do the job due to image limitations

No it will not. IMv6 mogrify takes all images and image creation coders on the command line as beign a source/destination image to be worked on. The command line is parsed twice one for image files, which are run though every non-image option found.

Its sort of stupid, but the result of legacy handlign left from IMv5 days.

The only solution to composing with a second image, is to use -draw image.

See IM Examples, Basics, Mogrify, Alpha Composition using "mogrify"
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage//basic ... fy_compose



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