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NAME
ImageMagick - a free software suite for the creation, modification
and display of bitmap images.
SYNOPSIS
magick [
options|
input-file]...
output-file magick-script script-file [
script-arguments]...
OVERVIEW
Use ImageMagick(R) to create, edit, compose, or convert bitmap
images. It can read and write images in a variety of formats (over
200) including PNG, JPEG, GIF, HEIC, TIFF, DPX, EXR, WebP,
Postscript, PDF, and SVG. Use ImageMagick to resize, flip, mirror,
rotate, distort, shear and transform images, adjust image colors,
apply various special effects, or draw text, lines, polygons,
ellipses and B'ezier curves.
The functionality of ImageMagick is typically utilized from the
command-line. It can also be accessed from programs written in your
favorite language using the corresponding interface: G2F (Ada),
MagickCore (C), MagickWand (C), ChMagick (Ch), ImageMagickObject
(COM+), Magick++ (C++), JMagick (Java), JuliaIO (Julia), L-Magick
(Lisp), Lua (LuaJIT), NMagick (Neko/haXe), Magick.NET (.NET),
PascalMagick (Pascal), PerlMagick (Perl), MagickWand for PHP (PHP),
IMagick (PHP), PythonMagick (Python), magick (R), RMagick (Ruby), or
TclMagick (Tcl/TK). With a language interface, use ImageMagick to
modify or create images dynamically and automagically.
ImageMagick utilizes multiple computational threads to increase
performance. It can read, process, or write mega-, giga-, or tera-
pixel image sizes.
ImageMagick is free software delivered as a ready-to-run binary
distribution, or as source code that you may use, copy, modify, and
distribute in both open and proprietary applications. It is
distributed under a derived Apache 2.0 license.
The ImageMagick development process ensures a stable API and ABI.
Before each ImageMagick release, we perform a comprehensive security
assessment that includes memory error, thread data race detection,
and continuous fuzzing to help prevent security vulnerabilities.
The current release is ImageMagick 7.0.8-11. It runs on Linux,
Windows, Mac Os X, iOS, Android OS, and others. We continue to
maintain the legacy release of ImageMagick, version 6, at
https://legacy.imagemagick.org.
The authoritative ImageMagick web site is https://imagemagick.org.
The authoritative source code repository is
https://github.com/ImageMagick. We maintain a source code mirror at
https://gitlab.com/ImageMagick.
ImageMagick is a suite of command-line utilities for manipulating
images. You may have edited images at one time or another using
programs such as GIMP or Photoshop, which expose their functionality
mainly through a graphical user interface. However, a GUI program is
not always the right tool. Suppose you want to process an image
dynamically from a web script, or you want to apply the same
operations to many images, or repeat a specific operation at
different times to the same or different image. For these types of
operations, a command-line utility is more suitable.
The remaining of this manpage is a list of the available command-line
utilities and their short descriptions. For further documentation
concerning a particular command and its options, consult the
corresponding manpage. If you are just getting acquainted with
ImageMagick, start at the top of that list, the
magick(1) program,
and work your way down. Also, make sure to check out Anthony
Thyssen's tutorial on how to use ImageMagick utilities to convert,
compose, or edit images from the command-line.
magick Read images into memory, perform operations on those images,
and write them out to either the same or some other image file
format. The "-script" option can be used to switch from
processing command line options, to reading options from a
file or pipeline.
magick-script This command is similar to
magick(1) but with an implied
"-script" option. It is useful in special "#!/usr/bin/env
magick-script" scripts that search for the
magick-script(1) command anywhere along the users PATH, rather than in a
hardcoded command location.
convert Available for Backward compatibility with ImageMagick's
version 6
convert(1). Essentially, it is just an alias to a
restrictive form of the
magick(1) command, which should be
used instead.
mogrify Resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip,
join, re-sample, and much more. This command overwrites the
original image file, whereas
convert(1) writes to a different
image file.
identify Describe the format and characteristics of one or more image
files.
composite Overlap one image over another.
montage Create a composite image by combining several separate ones.
The images are tiled on the composite image, optionally
adorned with a border, frame, image name, and more.
compare Mathematically and visually annotate the difference between an
image and its reconstruction.
stream Stream one or more pixel components of the image or portion of
the image to your choice of storage formats. It writes the
pixel components as they are read from the input image, a row
at a time, making
stream(1) desirable when working with large
images, or when you require raw pixel components.
display Display an image or image sequence on any X server.
animate Animate an image sequence on any X server.
import Save any visible window on any X server and output it as an
image file. You can capture a single window, the entire
screen, or any rectangular portion of the it.
conjure Interpret and execute scripts written in the Magick Scripting
Language (MSL).
For more information about the ImageMagick, point your browser to
file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/index.html or
https://imagemagick.org/.
SEE ALSO
convert(1),
compare(1),
composite(1),
conjure(1),
identify(1),
import(1),
magick(1),
magick-script(1),
montage(1),
display(1),
animate(1),
import(1), Magick++-
config(1),
MagickCore-config(1),
MagickWand-config(1)COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1999 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-7/www/license.html or https://imagemagick.org/script/license.phpImageMagick 2020-04-25 ImageMagick(1)
