Unable to trim whitespace from this image

[chaddjohnson]

I am trying to trim whitespace (which is actually transparent) from this image: https://i.ibb.co/MP9LcTh/image.png

The following command strangely fails to trim from the left side of the image:

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convert input.png -fuzz 5% -trim output.png

Any idea why?

[fmw42]

You have 1 opaque white row (not transparent) at the bottom of your image that is hard to detect. But you can see it if you turn alpha off and magnify your image. So you need to shave that off. Also you should remove the virtual-canvas after trimming with +repage.

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convert image.png -gravity south -chop 0x1 -fuzz 5% -trim +repage output.png

[chaddjohnson]

That was it! I totally missed that. Thank you! I was able to add some transparent padding like so:

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convert input.png -gravity north -background transparent -splice 0x1 output.png

[fmw42]

I am not sure why you needed to add the padding back for the one line that was removed, since you were trimming. But you added it to the top rather than the bottom where the line was removed by my chop.

[chaddjohnson]

It's due to the way this image was generated. It was composed with another image, and the mask was smaller than the other image, so that caused the line.

Sorry if I have my terms or usages wrong -- I'm a developer, and IM is new to me

[fmw42]

Sorry if I have my terms or usages wrong -- I'm a developer, and IM is new to me

No problem. Just trying to understand why you added the transparent line to the top, since you were going to trim it anyway. Perhaps I misunderstand if you were adding it before or after processing. But no matter, as long is it is resolved for you.

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[chaddjohnson]

Will do. Thanks!