Legacy ImageMagick Discussions Archive

I have been rerading about the -limit argument, and about the corrsponding environment variables . However, I do not fully understand the meaning of the individual values. I want to create a thumbnail of a 1.6 GB uncompressed TIFF file. I was told that the process takes four times the TIFF's size of...

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I am trying to position an image on a background and add some text to it. convert in.png -background #cccccc -extent 500x150-25-25 -gravity center -annotate 0 "some text" out.tif in.png is an image of solid colour which uses the alpha channel to create the visible image (imagine something ...