Really Basic Question By NewUser

[lance123]

Hi To All,

Really looking forward to using this tool. I am using osx 10.4.8. I type in the following with a folder open and the file inside it.

convert -image.jpg image.png
convert: unrecognized option `-image.jpg'.

Maybe I am not understanding where the files are referenced?? Sorry for the basic nature of the question. I do the:

convert logo.gif
Version: ImageMagick 6.1.7 12/19/04 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ImageMagick Studio LLC

and it shows up as installed ok

Thanks for any help available

Lance

[rmagick]

A leading dash ("-") indicates an option. Filenames don't need a leading dash. Just use

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convert image.jpg image.png

[lance123]

Hi,

thanks for the input.

I try that and same result

lance-whites-computer-2:~ lancewhite$ convert image.jpg image.png
convert: unable to open image `image.jpg': No such file or directory.
convert: missing an image filename `image.png'.

Regards,

Lance

[anthony]

Does you image have a 'hyphen in front of it? If so reference it using a path.
For example ./-image.jpg to refer to "-image.jpg" in the current directory.