Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

Thanks for the reply. I normally use ImageMagick via the perl Image::Magick module. As I wrote in my other post http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=18285 there seems to be another way from the command line. However, one of my problems is, that there doesn't seem to be...

When you have to deal with big images a lot, may be vips could help
http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=VIPS

VIPS is a free image processing system. It is good with large images (images larger than the amount of RAM you have available), with many CPUs

Sorry, my wrong:
In fact the png files produced by "convert file.pdf file.png" ARE transparent.
My image viewer needed a restart to show the transpareny

Please excuse me.

So at least for my needs I will have pnmraw instead of pngalpha in my delegates.xml.

When converting "usual" pdf files to png and/or tiff convert renders different (wrong) background. By "usual" pdf files I mean pdf files that look like black text on white paper but in fact are black text on transparent background. But of course these pdf files are normally (by p...

Hello, I am using imagemagick to convert pdf files to tif and jpeg. With im6.6.5-0 I do something like convert page.pdf page.tif and my page with black text on white paper is converted to a tif with black text on white background. When I do the same with im6.6.8-4 (I think any im > 6.6.7) I get some...