1animate(1) General Commands Manual animate(1)
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6 animate - animates an image or image sequence on any X server.
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9 animate [options] input-file
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12 The animate program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools.
13 Use it to animate an image or image sequence on any X server.
14 For more information about the animate command, point your browser to
16 file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6/www/animate.html@EXTRA_DOC_DIR@ or
17 http://imagemagick.org/script/animate.php.
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20 Image Settings:
21 -alpha option on, activate, off, deactivate, set, opaque, copy
22 transparent, extract, background, or shape
23 -authenticate value decrypt image with this password
24 -backdrop display image centered on a backdrop
25 -channel type apply option to select image channels
26 -colormap type Shared or Private
27 -colorspace type alternate image colorspace
28 -decipher filename convert cipher pixels to plain pixels
29 -define format:option
30 define one or more image format options
31 -delay centiseconds display the next image after pausing
32 -density geometry horizontal and vertical density of the image
33 -depth value image depth
34 -display server display image to this X server
35 -dispose method layer disposal method
36 -dither method apply error diffusion to image
37 -filter type use this filter when resizing an image
38 -format "string" output formatted image characteristics
39 -gamma value level of gamma correction
40 -geometry geometry preferred size and location of the Image window
41 -gravity type horizontal and vertical backdrop placement
42 -identify identify the format and characteristics of the
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44 -immutable displayed image cannot be modified
45 -interlace type type of image interlacing scheme
46 -interpolate method pixel color interpolation method
47 -limit type value pixel cache resource limit
48 -loop iterations loop images then exit
49 -matte store matte channel if the image has one
50 -map type display image using this Standard Colormap
51 -monitor monitor progress
52 -pause seconds to pause before reanimating
53 -page geometry size and location of an image canvas (setting)
54 -quantize colorspace reduce colors in this colorspace
55 -quiet suppress all warning messages
56 -regard-warnings pay attention to warning messages
57 -remote command execute a command in an remote display process
58 -repage geometry size and location of an image canvas (operator)
59 -respect-parentheses settings remain in effect until parenthesis
60 boundary
61 -sampling-factor geometry
62 horizontal and vertical sampling factor
63 -scenes range image scene range
64 -seed value seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
65 -set attribute value set an image attribute
66 -size geometry width and height of image
67 -support factor resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
68 -transparent-color color
69 transparent color
70 -treedepth value color tree depth
71 -verbose print detailed information about the image
72 -visual type display image using this visual type
73 -virtual-pixel method
74 virtual pixel access method
75 -window id display image to background of this window
76 Image Operators:
78 -colors value preferred number of colors in the image
79 -crop geometry preferred size and location of the cropped image
80 -extract geometry extract area from image
81 -monochrome transform image to black and white
82 -resample geometry change the resolution of an image
83 -resize geometry resize the image
84 -rotate degrees apply Paeth rotation to the image
85 -strip strip image of all profiles and comments
86 -thumbnail geometry create a thumbnail of the image
87 -trim trim image edges
88 Image Sequence Operators:
90 -coalesce merge a sequence of images
91 -flatten flatten a sequence of images
92 Miscellaneous Options:
94 -debug events display copious debugging information
95 -help print program options
96 -log format format of debugging information
97 -list type print a list of supported option arguments
98 -version print version information
99 In addition to those listed above, you can specify these standard X re‐
101 sources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -border‐
102 width, -font, -foreground, -iconGeometry, -iconic, -name, -mattecolor,
103 -shared-memory, or -title.
104 By default, the image format of `file' is determined by its magic num‐
106 ber. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with
107 an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image
108 type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). Specify 'file' as '-' for
109 standard input or output.
110 Buttons:
112 1 press to map or unmap the Command widget
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119 Copyright (C) 1999-2021 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights
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123ImageMagick Date: 2009/01/10 01:00:00 animate(1)