[magick-users] Fully-qualified application references required in Windows

Anthony Thyssen anthony at griffith.edu.au
Wed Mar 19 17:11:17 PDT 2008


"Ross Presser" on  wrote...
| Although you say that the ImageMagick folder is at the beginning of your
| PATH, "Invalid Parameter" is the error message given by the Windows utility
| C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONVERT.EXE being invoked instead of ImageMagick's
| CONVERT. (This Windows utility is used for converting a filesystem from
| FAT32 to NTFS.) I don't think ImageMagick's CONVERT even contains that exact
| string. Are you positive that the ImageMagick folder is earlier in your path
| than C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32 (or %SYSTEMROOT%\SYSTEM32)?
| 
See  IM Examples, API, Windows Batch Scripting
   http://imagemagick.org/Usage/api/#windows

QUOTE:
  Note that "convert" is a windows command, it is suggested you rename
  the IM convert command to "imconvert" to distinguish the two commands.
  You can't rename the system command, as a service pack would just
  restore it.


  Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer )    <A.Thyssen at griffith.edu.au>
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