Error 'Maximum TIFF file size exceeded` with -extract command

[briligg]

The libtiff5 library is installed, and the Resource limits are all adjusted to be large enough, but when i run

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convert FileIn.tif -extract 4000x4000+44080+21040 FileOut.tif

I get

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convert-im6.q16: Maximum TIFF file size exceeded. `TIFFAppendToStrip' @ error/tiff.c/TIFFErrors/564.

It converted to a TIFF of much larger dimensions yesterday without problems. Do I have a syntax error or something?

[snibgo]

Yes. See http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... hp#extract . "-extract" is an option that is used before reading an image, not an operation for an image that has already been read.

[briligg]

When I tried to copy the syntax in the example, IM couldn't read my file names.

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convert -extract 4000x4000+44080+21040 \ Lunar_LRO_LOLA_Global_LDEM_118m_Mar2014.tif LOLA-Center.tif
convert-im6.q16: unable to open image ` Lunar_LRO_LOLA_Global_LDEM_118m_Mar2014.tif': No such file or directory @ error/blob.c/OpenBlob/2701.
convert-im6.q16: no images defined `LOLA-Center.tif' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3258.

[briligg]

Oh wait, is there really supposed to be a quotation mark after the output file name?

[snibgo]

You have an isolated backslash "\" where IM expects an input filename.

[briligg]

Okay. I'm not used to conventions in code examples - there was a backslash in the example, and it didn't seem to me to be any kind of labelling convention, so i included it. I'll fix that, thanks.

[fmw42]

alternates are:

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convert FileIn.tif[4000x4000+44080+21040] FileOut.tif

or

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convert FileIn.tif -crop 4000x4000+44080+21040 +repage  FileOut.tif

[snibgo]

At http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... hp#extract , the backslash is the Unix character meaning that the command is continued on the next line.

Those examples also have a stray double-quote after the output name, and a comma. @Fred: can the quotes and comma be removed, please?

[fmw42]

@Fred: can the quotes and comma be removed, please?

I will add this to my list of documentation edits and try to get to it later this week.