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Hello,

I want to trim an image, and if the resulting canvas is too small for my definition, I want to do deliver some replacement image.
For the sake of performance, can this be done in a single convert operation; or alternatively can this be done using pipes?

Big thanks for your help!

This may help you out, as far as conditional statements:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12843

Only way I can think of is using a script.
Are you using any scripting now? and which language?

Thanks for your reply,

I am aware that the control flow can be dealt with outside of IM.
I am using im4java and was hoping to avoid the expense of forking off multiple IM processes from the JVM. Also I expect that doing the conversion in multiple IM instances may introduce concurrency issues...

Will sleep over it.
Regards, thud