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According to the IM documentation http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/crop/#border and http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/misc/#border the "-border" option has an intended side effect

that "-border" creates a new image of the right size, then overlays the original source image over this new backgroun

and it definitely was working in some previous versions of IM however this is not the case now at least in 6.9.7-0 or 6.9.2-10 which I tried. The following examples from documentation are not working as documented:
It should change the background of the star.gif to LimeGreen however nothing happens (the background is not changed).

The following example is said to

For example, under IM this sets the transparent areas of the star image to the "-bordercolor" and completely ignores the "-background" color setting.

But now it just adds a green border 10px width.

Is this new behaviour correct? Thanks!

This also happens in 7.0.4-7

The behaviour of "-border" has changed so it no longer complies with the documentation. See for example viewtopic.php?f=3&t=27997&p=123648

The description at http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... php#border is currently wrong. I don't know what it should be. Or whether the behaviour will revert to what it used to be.

EDIT: See also viewtopic.php?f=3&t=30045&p=135353 . It seems the "bug" reported there, which wasn't a bug but the documented behaviour, has been "fixed".

The basic concept of -border is to add a border around the outside of an opaque image. The secondary use for transparent images to fill the background is a special case and does not seem to work. I do not know if this is a bug or not. But you have several other methods to fill the background such as
or

Thanks!