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| Anthony,
|
| Thanks for your reply.
|
| I'll admit that I haven't gotten the hang of the IM syntax and I have
| close to no idea how the switches/operators/pipes work. I've tried reading
| the documentation, but I'm finding it difficult to get through. I tried
| this as you recommended:
|
| "convert -background none -page 1680x1050 bg.jpg \
| image1.png image2.png image3.png image4.png image5.png \
| -flatten ppm:- | convert - newimage.bmp"
|
| but the command didn't work with "ppm:-" in it. Using "tempfile.ppm"
| instead works though. It looks to me as though using a pipe(|) or a
| dash(-) before the second convert had the exact same effect. I assume the
| pipe is the correct symbol, so I'll stick with that.
|
You may be using DOS. which does not have a good command line handling
'shell' to allow you to 'pipe' commands from one to the other.
| "You could try using -strip to remove any extra image meta-data. I can't
| test it myself as I don't have the propriate images to test it on."
| I tried adding -strip at the beginning of the command, in the middle of
| the command and at the end, but it didn't make any measurable difference
| on performance.
|
It was not for performance, but to remove the meta-data that cound be
forcing IM to generate BMP4 images instead of BMP3
Try this..
convert -background none -page 1680x1050 bg.jpg image1.png image2.png
image3.png image4.png image5.png -flatten -strip BMP3:newimage.bmp
Is the result BMP3?
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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