Maximum size of image

[prateek2k10]

Hi

I want to create 129600 in width and 1656 in height size image,
Is that imagemagick is so much capable to create that much size text image.
Please tell me the configuration of linux server needed to create that image.
Is there any limitations of sizes.

Thanks
Prateek

[prateek2k10]

these sizes are in pixels

[snibgo]

That number of pixels needs about 2 GB, so merely creating the image needs that much memory.

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convert -size 129600x1656 huge.png

I don't know about Unix. My old 4 GB Windows laptop doesn't have enough free RAM (because I'm also doing other stuff), so it uses disk and takes 5 minutes.

If you are also doing processing you will need memory for both input and output. But if you use Q8 instead of Q16 you can halve the memory requirement.

[fmw42]

see
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/files/#massive
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/comma ... .php#limit
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/resou ... nvironment