Hi, I would like to know whether the name conflict between IM's 'convert.exe' and the Windows system tool still is an issue or since when the conflict has been resolved.
When I changed to Windows XP (introducing the system tool 'convert.exe' on my computer), I had great difficulties to figure out what was suddenly wrong with all my scripts -- so there definitively was a problem in this regard. Thus I took the habit of renaming 'convert.exe' to 'IMconvert.exe' in all of my scripts, or introduced a variable (actually, a constant) for the program's name. Testing one of Fred's scripts under Cygwin, I suddenly realised that you can really leave 'convert.exe' what it is without any error. This is probably due to the fact that the ordering in the search path has been changed in some version of IM: "c:\program files\ImageMagick ..." now stands before "C:\Windows\System32". When has this been changed and is this a reliable solution of the conflict? A lot of webpages (including mine at http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/windows/) still recommend to rename "convert.exe" to something else. BTW: I think it would make things easier if the installation path would remain the same for each version, i.e. "c:\program files\ImageMagick" without any version number. This would allow to perform an automatic installation on the client computers in my firm. The same holds for the download link on the IM website, which also includes the version number. Couldn't there be a mapping such as, if I specify "http://www.imagemagick.org/download/binaries/ImageMagick.exe"; without anything else, I will automatically download the newest standard binaries? Wolfgang Hugemann P.S.: Thanks for adding the "-define jpeg:extent" option! _______________________________________________ Magick-users mailing list [email protected] http://studio.imagemagick.org/mailman/listinfo/magick-users
