NAME¶

animate - animates an image or image sequence on any X server.

SYNOPSIS¶

animate [options] input-file

OVERVIEW¶

The animate program is a member of the ImageMagick(1) suite of tools. Use it to animate an image or image sequence on any X server.

For more information about the animate command, point your browser to file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.7.2//www/animate.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/animate.php.

DESCRIPTION¶

Image Settings:
-authenticate value decrypt image with this password
-backdrop display image centered on a backdrop
-channel type apply option to select image channels
-colormap type Shared or Private
-colorspace type alternate image colorspace
-decipher filename convert cipher pixels to plain pixels
-define format:option
define one or more image format options
-delay value display the next image after pausing
-density geometry horizontal and vertical density of the image
-depth value image depth
-display server display image to this X server
-dispose method layer disposal method
-dither method apply error diffusion to image
-format "string" output formatted image characteristics
-gamma value level of gamma correction
-geometry geometry preferred size and location of the Image window
-gravity type horizontal and vertical backdrop placement
-identify identify the format and characteristics of the image
-immutable displayed image cannot be modified
-interlace type type of image interlacing scheme
-interpolate method pixel color interpolation method
-limit type value pixel cache resource limit
-loop iterations loop images then exit
-matte store matte channel if the image has one
-map type display image using this Standard Colormap
-monitor monitor progress
-pause seconds to pause before reanimating
-page geometry size and location of an image canvas (setting)
-quantize colorspace reduce colors in this colorspace
-quiet suppress all warning messages
-regard-warnings pay attention to warning messages
-remote command execute a command in an remote display process
-sampling-factor geometry
horizontal and vertical sampling factor
-scenes range image scene range
-seed value seed a new sequence of pseudo-random numbers
-set attribute value set an image attribute
-size geometry width and height of image
-support factor resize support: > 1.0 is blurry, < 1.0 is sharp
-transparent-color color
transparent color
-treedepth value color tree depth
-verbose print detailed information about the image
-visual type display image using this visual type
-virtual-pixel method
virtual pixel access method
-window id display image to background of this window

Image Operators:
-colors value preferred number of colors in the image
-crop geometry preferred size and location of the cropped image
-extract geometry extract area from image
-monochrome transform image to black and white
-repage geometry size and location of an image canvas (operator)
-resample geometry change the resolution of an image
-resize geometry resize the image
-rotate degrees apply Paeth rotation to the image
-strip strip image of all profiles and comments
-trim trim image edges

Image Sequence Operators:
-coalesce merge a sequence of images
-flatten flatten a sequence of images

Miscellaneous Options:
-debug events display copious debugging information
-help print program options
-log format format of debugging information
-list type print a list of supported option arguments
-version print version information

In addition to those listed above, you can specify these standard X resources as command line options: -background, -bordercolor, -borderwidth, -font, -foreground, -iconGeometry, -iconic, -name, -mattecolor, -shared-memory, or -title.

By default, the image format of `file' is determined by its magic number. To specify a particular image format, precede the filename with an image format name and a colon (i.e. ps:image) or specify the image type as the filename suffix (i.e. image.ps). Specify 'file' as '-' for standard input or output.

Buttons:
1 press to map or unmap the Command widget

SEE ALSO¶

ImageMagick(1)

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright (C) 1999-2011 ImageMagick Studio LLC. Additional copyrights and licenses apply to this software, see file:///usr/share/doc/ImageMagick-6.7.2//www/license.html or http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php