Midtone Mask

[fmw42]

Those are only for Unix. I do not know if there is a Windows display, but have heard users mention IMdisplay or something like that. Other windows users should be able to help or perhaps see http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/

Getting coordinate readout is also available for Unix systems by clicking on the image after displaying with display, show:, x:. All these rely upon X11 being installed and available to IM. It would show in the Delegate list when doing convert -version.

As a windows user, you also could install Cygwin (unix environment for windows).

I do not recall you saying what version of IM and platform you are using!

[afre]

Believe imdisplay.exe is in the Windows binary. Last time I checked, it doesn't have all the features of display.

Sorry about that—I'm using IM built using snibgo's instructions (cygwin):

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Version: ImageMagick 6.9.0-9 Q32 x86_64 2015-03-04 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2015 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: DPC HDRI Modules OpenMP
Delegates (built-in): bzlib cairo fftw fontconfig freetype fpx jbig jng jpeg lcms ltdl lzma pangocairo png rsvg tiff webp x xml zlib

There's two possibilities I can think of: 1. My config needs modification. 2. I'm missing a dependency in Cygwin.

[fmw42]

The "x" in your list seems to imply that X11 is installed. That is what I have on my Mac delegate list.

But I do not know if display or show: or x: should work under Cygwin on Windows or not. Perhaps snibgo can comment.

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Version: ImageMagick 6.9.1-1 Q16 x86_64 2015-04-05 http://www.imagemagick.org
Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2015 ImageMagick Studio LLC
License: http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php
Features: DPC Modules
Delegates (built-in): bzlib cairo fftw fontconfig freetype gslib jbig jng jp2 jpeg lcms lqr ltdl lzma openexr png ps rsvg tiff webp x xml zlib

Are you typing your convert commands in the Cygwin or Windows terminal?

[snibgo]

To quickly display an image file in Windows, just type the name of the file. This will run whatever program you have associated with that file type. I use Microsoft Photo Viewer. Possible alternatives include IM's display, Gimp, Irfanview etc.

I don't use X. I don't know if it is available under Windows.

With the pre-compiled Windows binary...

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convert rose: show:
convert rose: win:

... will both run IM's display. I don't use it.

[afre]

Getting coordinate readout ... by clicking on the image after displaying

Opening every image and jotting down the coordinates is tedious. Would this be possible (in Unix)? 1) Display image. Ask for user input via mouse. 2) Retrieve coordinates of pixel location/region. 3)Close image display. Continue script with new info.

To quickly display an image file in Windows, just type the name of the file.

I already do that; however, it gets messy very quickly when dealing with multiple windows.

[snibgo]

You can easily do this in any script language with any image editor (eg Gimp):

1. Run a script with an image filename.

2. The script makes a copy of the image, and runs the image editor with that copy, and waits for the editor to finish.

3. Users crops the image (eg in Gimp, "rectangle select tool", menu "Image", "Crop to selection"). Users saves the image and exits the editor.

4. The script searches for the cropped saved image in the original image. This gives the coordinates.

With more development work, a script within the editor (eg Python-Fu in Gimp) can probably eliminate the need to save the crop and do the search.

[fmw42]

There are numerous jquery/javascript cropping and/or coordinate readout tools. Search Google. You can also try one that user Bonzo created at http://www.rubbleimages.com/Distort.php or something simpler that I was working on.

[afre]

To follow up, I found out how to use X in Windows: start X server then do commands in xterm.