clip telling me no clippath found

[mrmworth]

so i'm trying to convert a .tif into a .gif and use the clippath to remove the area defined to be clipped.
on the command line i run:

convert -clip image.tif image.gif

i end up getting the following error:

convert: no clip path defined `image.tif': No such file or directory.

now i know i have clippaths set because when i open the document in adobe it shows me them. also, if i run the following command:

identify -verbose image.tif | grep -i path

i get the following output:

0x0003ff70: d0065061 74682031 00000022 bc000600 00000000 ---Path 1---"-------
0x0006b6c0: f0004ba7 23384249 4d07d106 50617468 20320000 ---K-#8BIM---Path 2-
0x00095b50: b7000000 00000d06 50617468 20310000 00000001 ---------Path 1-----

so i'm not exactly sure what is going wrong here because the command doesn't produce a clipped gif.
anyone have any thoughts based off of the output i'm receiving?
(technical info: i'm running ImageMagick-6.3.0 on a linux machine)

[magick]

Post a URL to your image so we can download it and reproduce the problem. We'll get back to your with a solution.

[mrmworth]

thanks for offering to help.

i posted the image i'm using here: http://worthingtonpresents.com/image/yoga.tif

[magick]

We're using ImageMagick 6.3.2-9. It recognizes the clip path:

• idenitfy -verbose yoga.tif
  ...
  Clipping path:
  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
  <svg width="800" height="375">
  <g>
  <path style="fill:#00000000;stroke:#00000000;stroke-width:0;stroke-antialiasing:
  false" d="
  M 238.515,77.9703
  C 239.791,78.7825 240.951,78.8985 242.227,78.4344
  C 243.503,77.9703 247.117,77.126 250,75.9978
  C 252.668,74.9536 257.077,74.1414 261.369,74.2574
  C 265.661,74.3734 269.374,74.8375 271.462,75.3017
  C 273.55,75.7658 280.046,77.2741 282.947,78.0863
  C 285.847,78.8985 289.791,80.4069 292.691,82.1473
  C 295.592,83.8877 298.724,86.2082 300.58,87.2525
  C 302.436,88.2967 304.872,89.9211 306.845,90.8493
  C 308.817,91.7775 317.633,95.6064 319.722,96.0705
  C 321.81,96.5346 322.97,97.2308 324.362,97.4629
  C 325.754,97.6949 326.682,98.275 327.726,98.9712
  C 328.77,99.6674 332.715,101.06 336.079,102.684
  ...

[mrmworth]

i'm not seeing that exact output as you have for the clipping path. is that because i'm using a different version of imagemagick, or perhaps ghostscript or xml library?

if you run the command convert -clip yoga.tif yoga.gif, does it actually clip out the paths? and make that area white?

thanks for you help.

[magick]

The first image has a woman exercising with a black background. The second image has the woman exercising on a mat on a white background.

[mrmworth]

so i updated my imagemagick to the same version as you.
when i run the identify -verbose yoga.tif command, i now get the same output as you with the clipping path definition and all.

however when i run the command convert -clip yoga.tif yoga.gif the output is a blinking image:
http://worthingtonpresents.com/image/yoga.gif

i'm not sure what command you're running, perhaps different then mine?
or perhaps something else installed on my box is outdated...

thanks for your help again

[anthony]

It is blinking as it generated TWO images, just as Chrisy told you he sees. IM then saves these two images into one file format. As that format is GIF you get a 2 frame animation!!!!

Try adding -delete 0 or +delete to delete either the first or last image before saving, or use +adjoin to have it save as seperate files "yoga-0.gif" and "yoga-1.gif", or save to JPEG for the same result as JPEG formats can not handle multiple images.

For more info see IM Examples, File handling, Writing multi-image sequences
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#write_seq