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>Synopsis
identify file [ file ... ]
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>Description
Identify describes the format and characteristics of one or more image files. It will also report if an image is incomplete or corrupt. The information displayed includes the scene number, the file name, the width and height of the image, whether the image is colormapped or not, the number of colors in the image, the number of bytes in the image, the format of the image (JPEG, PNM, etc.), and finally the number of seconds it took to read and process the image. An example line output from identify follows:
    images/aquarium.miff 640x480 PseudoClass 256c 308135b MIFF 1s
If -verbose is set, expect additional output including any image comment: 
    Image: images/aquarium.miff
      class: PseudoClass
      colors: 256
      signature: eb5dca81dd93ae7e6ffae99a5275a53e
      matte: False
      geometry: 640x480
      depth: 8
      bytes: 308135
      format: MIFF
      comments:
 
        Imported from MTV raster image:  aquarium.mtv
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>Options
Options are processed in command line order. Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect until it is explicitly changed by specifying the option again with a different effect.

 

 
>-cache threshold
megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache.

Image pixels are stored in memory until 80 megabytes of memory have been consumed. Subsequent pixel operations are cached on disk. Operations to memory are significantly faster but if your computer does not have a sufficient amount of free memory you may want to adjust this threshold value.

 
>-density <width>x<height>
vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image.

This option specifies an image density when decoding a PostScript or Portable Document page. The default is 72 dots per inch in the horizontal and vertical direction. This option is used in concert with -page.

 
>-format string
output formated image characteristics.

Use this option to print information about the image in a format of your choosing. You can include the image filename, type, width, height, or other image attributes by embedding special format characters: 

    %b   file size
    %c   comment
    %d   directory
    %e   filename extention
    %f   filename
    %h   height
    %i   input filename
    %l   label
    %m   magick
    %n   number of scenes
    %o   output filename
    %p   page number
    %q   quantum depth
    %s   scene number
    %t   top of filename
    %u   unique temporary filename
    %w   width
    %x   x resolution
    %y   y resolution
    \\n   newline
    \\r   carriage return
For example, 
  -format "%m:%f %wx%h"
display MIFF:bird.miff 512x480 for an image titled bird.miff and whose width is 512 and height is 480.

If the first character of string is @, the image comment is read from a file titled by the remaining characters in the string.
 
>-ping
efficiently determine image characteristics.
This is a more efficient and less memory intensive way to query if an image exists and what its size is. Note, only the size of the first image in a multi-frame image file is returned.
 
>-size <width>{%}x<height>{%}{+offset}{!}
width and height of the image.

Use this option to specify the width and height of raw images whose dimensions are unknown such as GRAY, RGB, or CMYK. In addition to width and height, use -size to skip any header information in the image or tell the number of colors in a MAP image file, (e.g. -size 640x512+256).

For Photo CD images, choose from these sizes:

   192x128
   384x256
   768x512
   1536x1024
   3072x2048
Finally, use this option to choose a particular resolution layer of a JBIG or JPEG image (e.g. -size 1024x768).
 
>-verbose
print detailed information about the image.

This information is printed: image name; the image class (DirectClass or PseudoClass); the total number of unique colors; whether there is a matte associated with the image; the number of runlength packets; the image size; the depth of the image; the image format; the image scene; and finally any image comment. Refer to miff for a description of the image class.


 

 

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>Authors
John Cristy, magick@wizards.dupont.comImageMagick Studio.
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>Copyright
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