Thanks for the tip. I tried but the information is general statistics: histogram of colors, color channels, etc. I pretty much found the answer to my question. It seems I cannot accomplish this with PNG, but can do the same thing using PSD format. I was misled in thinking it could be done with PNG because of what seems a proprietary handling of PNGs by Fireworks.
Here's a link to the imagemagick forum and the outcome of this question: http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12311&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a.<http://www.imagemagick.org/discourse-server/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12311&start=0&st=0&sk=t&sd=a> If Fireworks does save the layers in a proprietary format, it does save them in the file since if I close and open the file again, the layer and objects information is still present. Of course if it is a proprietary format there's not much I can do. This seems to be the case since if I open the same PNG in GIMP, neither the layers nor the objects (i.e. the named rectangles) are identified. The file opens up as a flattened image. Also in GIMP, adding a rectangle, which in Fireworks creates a unique object, is flattened in the image. So I guess what I was hoping to do is impossible with PNG. I tried with convert -verbose using a PSD and it pretty much does what I need. I was probably taken on the wrong track by the special way Fireworks deals with PNGs. At least I can accomplish the same thing with the PSD format. Thanks a lot for the help! Rich. On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:04 PM, Pete Whatever <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > All I can suggest is you use ImageMagick's "identify" command to see what > IM knows about the file and try to correlate that with what Fireworks shows > you. e.g. > identify -verbose layers.png > > Some of the boxes may be showing you the "background color", "border color" > and so on. > > Best Wishes > Pete > > > > > _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
