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- From: cristy@eplrx7.es.duPont.com (Cristy)
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- Subject: ImageMagick 2.1
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.015528.22811@sm.sony.co.jp>
- Date: 19 Nov 92 01:55:28 GMT
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- Date: 10 Nov 92 22:54:25 GMT
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-
- ImageMagick 2.1beta is a collection of X11 image processing and display
- utilities. It is available in alt.sources and as contrib/ImageMagick.tar.Z
- on export.lcs.mit.edu. A beta version of 2.0 was previously posted to
- alt.sources. This version has (hopefully) all the bugs fixed from
- version 2.0 and has these enhancements:
-
- o image compositing
- o Postscript images are cropped to their bounding box
- o animations take up to 5 times less memory
- o Add -colorspace option; YIQ or YUV may give better results when
- color reducing your image.
- o huge TIFF images are now subsampled if there is not enough memory
- to read the entire image
- o You can use the cut buffer to specify filenames for the interactive
- write, print, and composite commands
- o Multi-part images (such as multi-page Postscript) is now handled
- properly
- o The magnify window of `display' shows current magnify factor.
- o Annotation, when using -monochrome, now works properly. Thanks to
- mbroe@ling.edinburgh.ac.uk for discovering this bug.
- o Annotation now works correctly after clipping or scaling the image
- window.
- o Uses version 3c of the JPEG library (see README).
- o XTP is improved and now works correctly on System 5 Release 4
-
- cristy@dupont.com
-
- ---
-
- Display
-
- Display is a machine architecture independent image
- processing and display program. It can display an image on
- any workstation display running an X server. Display first
- determines the hardware capabilities of the workstation. If
- the number of unique colors in the image is less than or
- equal to the number the workstation can support, the image
- is displayed in an X window. Otherwise the number of colors
- in the image is first reduced to match the color resolution
- of the workstation before it is displayed.
-
- This means that a continuous-tone 24 bits/pixel image can
- display on a 8 bit pseudo-color device or monochrome device.
- In most instances the reduced color image closely resembles
- the original. Alternatively, a monochrome or pseudo-color
- image can display on a continuous-tone 24 bits/pixels
- device.
-
-
- Import
-
- Import reads an image from any visible window on an X server
- and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single
- window, the entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the
- screen. You can use display (see display(1)) utility for
- redisplay, printing, editing, formatting, archiving, image
- processing, etc. of the captured image.
-
- The target window can be specified by id, name, or may be
- selected by clicking the mouse in the desired window. If
- you press a button and then drag, a rectangle will form
- which expands and contracts as the mouse moves. To save the
- portion of the screen defined by the rectangle, just
- release the button. The keyboard bell is rung once at the
- beginning of the screen capture and twice when it completes.
-
-
- XtoPS
-
- XtoPS reads an image from any visible window on an X server
- and outputs it as Encapsulated Postscript. You can capture
- a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular
- portion of the screen. You can view the captured screen
- with any Postscript compatible viewer or printer. The
- Postscript is displayed in color on viewers or printers that
- support color, otherwise it is displayed as grayscale.
-
- The target window can be specified by id, name, or may be
- selected by clicking the mouse in the desired window. If
- you press a button and then drag, a rectangle will form
- which expands and contracts as the mouse moves. To save the
- portion of the screen defined by the rectangle, just release
- the button. The keyboard bell is rung once at the beginning
- of the screen capture and twice it completes.
-
-
- Animate
-
- Animate displays a sequence of images on any workstation
- display running an X server. Animate first determines the
- hardware capabilities of the workstation. If the number of
- unique colors in an image is less than or equal to the
- number the workstation can support, the image is displayed
- in an X window. Otherwise the number of colors in the image
- is first reduced to match the color resolution of the
- workstation before it is displayed.
-
- This means that a continuous-tone 24 bits/pixel image can
- display on a 8 bit pseudo-color device or monochrome device.
- In most instances the reduced color image closely resembles
- the original. Alternatively, a monochrome or pseudo-color
- image sequence can display on a continuous-tone 24
- bits/pixels device.
-
-
- Montage
-
- Montage creates a composite image by combining several
- separate images. The images are tiled on the composite
- image with the name of the image optionally appearing just
- below the individual tile.
-
- Mogrify
-
- Mogrify transforms an image or a sequence of images. These
- transforms include image scaling, image rotation, color
- reduction, and others. The transmogrified image overwrites
- the original image.
-
-
- Convert
-
- Convert converts an input file using one image format to an
- output file with a differing image format. By default, the
- image format is determined by it's magic number. To specify
- a particular image format, precede the filename with an
- image format name and a colon (i.e. mtv:image) or specify
- the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.mtv).
- Specify file as - for standard input or output. If file has
- the extension .Z, the file is decoded with uncompress.
-
- Convert recognizes the following image formats:
-
- Tag Description
- ----------------------------------------------------
- AVS
- CMYK Raw cyan, magenta, yellow, and black bytes
- FAX Group 3
- GIF
- GRAY Raw gray bytes
- JPEG
- MIFF Machine Independant file format
- MTV
- PNM Portable bitmap
- PS Postscript
- RGB Raw red, green, and blue bytes
- RLE Utah Raster Toolkit
- SUN SUN raster
- TEXT raw text file; read only
- TIFF Tagged Image File Format
- VICAR
- X select image from X server screen; read only
- XC constant image of X server background color
- XBM X11 bitmap
- XWD X11 window dump
-
- XTP
-
- Xtp is a utility for retrieving, listing, or printing files
- from a remote network site, or sending files to a remote
- network site. Xtp performs most of the same functions as
- the ftp program, but does not require any interactive
- commands. You simply specify the file transfer task on the
- command line and xtp performs the task automatically.
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- cristy@dupont.com
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