convert -verbose imagefile without converting anything

[Joel Hammer]

Man, who would have thunk it.
identify -verbose image.TIF
took 5 secs.
convert -verbose image.TIF junk.TIF
took one second.
Go figure.
Also to be wondered at is the fact that man convert doesn't mention
identify. I guess you have to read the ImageMagick web page, but, why? They
put other programs with the ImageMagick distribution into the man page for
convert. Grr.. Documentation, again. I think I have come around to the point
of view that nothing beats man pages for documentation. Forget the html
stuff. Now, if only the authors of man pages would provide more examples.
You would think text files take up a lot of space.
Joel

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:30:45PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> Thanks. I think I used to know that, but... Let's just say at my age
> what do you expect.
> 
> Joel
> On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:16:04PM -0500, kwall at kurtwerks.com wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:00:43PM -0500, Joel Hammer wrote:
> > > Is there a way to get the -verbose option with either convert or display to
> > > print out the image info without actually converting or displaying the
> > > image?
> > > I can fake it with:
> > > convert -verbose image.TIF garbage.TIF
> > > Which essentially just copies the file and is fairly quick, but I really
> > > think there must be a way just to avoid the "conversion" completely.
> > 
> > $ identify -verbose image.TIF
> > 
> > Kurt
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