[Magick-bugs] Any plans to document ImageMagick?

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Mon Oct 27 14:20:10 PDT 2008


In article <49060E46.9070705 at cam.ac.uk>,
    Richard Neill <rn214 at cam.ac.uk>  writes:

> While one is at this, Might I request putting some more stuff back into 
> the man page? "man convert" is exceptionally terse, and, while it does 
> contain a pointer to the HTML docs, this isn't ideal.

My problem with the documentation is that I *know* IM can do
something, but for the life of me I can't find the magic flag that
does it.  The -help output is too terse to be of any use unless you
already know what the flag does but temporarily forgot its name.  I
think part of this problem stems from the fact that "convert" is a
single utility that does *everything*, so you just run out of good
names for command-line arguments after a while and have to start
picking names that are euphamisms for what is done instead of
something descriptive or intuitive.
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