[magick-users] Converting 16-bit GRAY files to 8 bits

[Anthony Thyssen]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 11:55:35 -0500 (EST)
Robert Funnell <robert.funnell at mcgill.ca> wrote:
| Thank you very much for your patience.
| 
| By the way, my man page for convert says
|      convert input-file [options] output-file
| This obscures the importance of putting the options in the appropriate 
| place to act on either the input or the output. Perhaps it should say
|      convert [options] input-file [options] output-file
| Or perhaps it already says this in more recent versions?
| 
What is does not recognise is the   input-file  and output-file
are themselves -- image operations!!!!

input-file   just does not need a -read "input-file" type operator

output-file is explicit as the last argument is taken to really
mean  -write "output-file"

For "montage" it adds a whole swag of extra operations between
the last 'option' and the 'output-file'.  Other than that it is
basically the same as "convert".



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