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ImageMagick - ImageMagick is an X11 package for display
and interactive manipulation of images.
DESCRIPTION
ImageMagick is an X11 package for display and interactive
manipulation of images. The package includes tools for
image conversion, annotation, compositing, animation, and
creating montages. ImageMagick can read and write many of
the more popular image formats (e.g. JPEG, TIFF, PNM, XPM,
Photo CD, etc.). ImageMagick is available via anonymous
FTP as ftp://ftp.wizards.dupont.com/pub/ImageMag-
ick/ImageMagick-4.0.9.tar.gz.
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DESCRIPTION
mogrify transforms an image or a sequence of images.
These transforms include image scaling, image rotation,
color reduction, and others. The transmogrified image
overwrites the original image.
EXAMPLES
To convert all the TIFF files in a particular directory to
JPEG, use:
mogrify -format jpeg *.tiff
To scale an image of a cockatoo to exactly 640 pixels in
width and 480 pixels in height, use:
