[magick-users] parenthesis not work in windowsXP

Glenn Linderman perl at NevCal.com
Tue Dec 16 22:15:46 PST 2008


On approximately 12/16/2008 9:33 PM, came the following characters from 
the keyboard of Vu The Cuong:
> I'm using windowsXP with imageMagick 6.4.1.
> 
> When I ran this command:
> 
> convert   eye.gif \(storm.gif  -negate \) +append  cmd_bracket.gif
> 
> IM warned "unable to open image \(storm.gif : no such file or directory.
> 
>  
> 
> What can I do to fix this?
> 
> Regards


Two things to try:

Leave a space on both sides of \( and \) so that it is not merged with a 
file name.

Not sure if Windoze needs the \ or not.

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Glenn -- http://nevcal.com/
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