Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

It help if you read the image BEFORE you try to do things with it!
see IM Examples Basics.
http://www.cit.gu.edu.au/~anthony/graph ... k6/basics/

That is because of the fallback legacy system left over from version 5 days. That system will do the job but has no gurantees on the ordering of more than two operators. This was why version 6 became a seperate major release.